This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Techniques > Literary Techniques – Quiz 9 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Techniques Quiz 9 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What kind of figurative language is being used?The boy cried like a baby after he ate too much pasta. A) Simile. B) Smile. C) Similarly. D) We have stopped. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 2. What is a Synechdoche? A) A brief reference to a person, historical event, work of art, character to make a comparison. B) A shorter form of sentence which some words have been omitted, but it retains the same meaning. C) Two words with different meanings that sound the same used with an amusing effect. D) Indicating a person or object by using a part to represent the whole . Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Indicating a person or object by using a part to represent the whole . 3. Two rhyming lines at the end of a speech, signaling that a character is leaving the stage or a scene is ending. A) Pun. B) Rhyming couplet. C) Prose. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyming couplet. 4. Intentionally using words that have either a positive or negative association in order to communicate tone or emotionally manipulate the audience A) Denotative diction. B) Connotative diction. C) Imagery. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Connotative diction. 5. Appeals to the five senses to make a scene come to life A) Imagery. B) Irony. C) Symbol. D) Epiphany. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 6. We just lost two lonely, scared souls swimming in a fish bowl. (Pink Floyd) A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 7. Natural imagery A) Recurring words or phrases. B) Makes objects seem as though they are alive. C) Direct comparison using imagery. D) Language that describes the landscape and weather. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Language that describes the landscape and weather. 8. A reference to a famous text, person, place, or event. A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 9. Character, setting, conflict, and plot are ..... A) Not related at all. B) Related because they are all story elements and help the reader recognize the theme. C) Related because they are all story elements but they generally don't affect each other. D) Only related when the characters and the conflict come together. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Related because they are all story elements and help the reader recognize the theme. 10. My head is pounding like a drum. This sentence is an example of ..... but it is also an example of ..... A) Simile; metaphor. B) Simile; imagery. C) Simile; imaginary. D) Simile; description. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile; imagery. 11. What is the purpose of using paradox in poetry? A) To create a visual image. B) To convey a particular effect. C) To confuse the reader. D) To hide the meaning of the poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To convey a particular effect. 12. Which of the following lines is a quote from Langston Hughes' poem "I, Too" ? A) Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs. B) They'll see how beautiful I amAnd be ashamed-. C) You may trod me in the very dirt. D) I've had enough. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They'll see how beautiful I amAnd be ashamed-. 13. This choice impacts the audience by putting the readers more at ease with the author, contributing to a relaxed tone A) Informal language. B) Scientific language. C) Facts and statistics. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Informal language. 14. The repetition of vowel sounds in a line of poetry (holy stony pony) A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Couplet. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Assonance. 15. Which acronym do we use for slow-motion description? A) FISHY. B) FARTS. C) SPEAR. D) RAISE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FARTS. 16. An interruption in the present action of a story that takes the reader back to a time from the past and then takes the reader back to the present A) Rhetorical Question. B) Foreshadowing. C) Flashback. D) Dialect. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Flashback. 17. Imagery is intended ..... A) To make you see things when you read. B) To make you understand facts. C) To tell you the writer's opinion. D) To tell you the answer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To make you see things when you read. 18. Repetition of a sound or letter at the beginning of words that are near to each other. Often used in poetry. (Example:Seven slippery snakes slithered sneakily southwards.) A) Tone. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 19. Alliteration is the repetition of a vowel sound at the beginning of a word A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 20. Which literary technique does Robert Frost use in the bold parts of these lines?Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. A) Alliteration. B) Anaphora. C) Allusion. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesIntroductions QuizzesLiterary Techniques Quiz 1Literary Techniques Quiz 2Literary Techniques Quiz 3Literary Techniques Quiz 4Literary Techniques Quiz 5Literary Techniques Quiz 6Literary Techniques Quiz 7Literary Techniques Quiz 8Literary Techniques Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books