Literary Terms
Total Questions: 25
1) “We-dry Away/Like to the summer’s rain” (from the poem ‘To Daffodils’) is an example of-
- A: metaphor
- B: personification
- C: symbol
- D: simile
2) Which one is an example of a metaphor?
- A: The lawn is a beautiful green blanket we spread out every summer.
- B: You could have knocked me over with a feather.
- C: The star danced playfully in the moonlit sky.
- D: The weather is as cool as a summer day in the Midwest.
3) ___is an implicit comparison between two dissimilar of different things.
- A: Allusion
- B: Assonance
- C: Metaphor
- D: Alliteration
4) Applying human qualities to non-human things is known as-
- A: simile
- B: personification
- C: imagery
- D: metaphor
5) ___is a negative statement that suggests a very strong affirmative.
- A: Litotes
- B: Paradox
- C: Aphorism
- D: Epitaph
6) _____is a brief and witty statement which is apparently self-contradictory.
- A: Epigram
- B: Conceit
- C: Epithet
- D: Hyperbole
7) In English, if two different words have the same spelling and pronunciation they are called-
- A: synonyms
- B: homophones
- C: homographs
- D: homonyms
8) Which one is NOT true?
- A: Assonance refers the repetition of a vowel sound without the recurrence of a consonant sound.
- B: Aphorism is a terse expression of a universal truth.
- C: Couplet refers two lines of verse rhyming together.
- D: Soliloquy is a dramatic technique of speaking together on the stage.
9) The word ‘merit’ in the sentence “The boy showed his merit by making twenty mistakes in the minutes” is an example of-
- A: irony
- B: personification
- C: metaphor
- D: pun
10) Time and Tide wait for none is an example of-
- A: Simile
- B: Personification(
- C: Metaphor
- D: Allusion
11) “The hungry judge soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jury men may dine” this is an example of—
- A: a satire biz
- B: a metaphor
- C: an irony liv (6)
- D: a metonymy()
12) King Lear banished his youngest daughter Cordelia from his Kingdom; but at the end, she became her only shelter. This is an example of-
- A: sarcasm
- B: hyperbole
- C: irony
- D: metaphor
13) The sentence ‘Death, thou shalt die’ is an example of-
- A: simile
- B: irony
- C: metaphor
- D: paradox
14) A person who writes plays is called a-
- A: play-write
- B: playwright
- C: playwriter
- D: playwrighter
15) ___is a literary term in which two contradictory words are put together or side
- A: Oxymoron
- B: Homophone
- C: Onomatopoeia
- D: Irony
16) Choose the appropriate one among the four figures of speech for the following sentence: Here’s the smell of blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.
- A: euphemism
- B: metonymy
- C: epigram
- D: hyperbole
17) A way of speaking or writing that makes something sound better, more exciting, dangerous etc. than it is really is’: This can be the best definition of the term-
- A: personification
- B: synecdoche
- C: simile
- D: hyperbole
18) Mythology is the study of various beliefs about
- A: monsters and fairies
- B: kings and queens
- C: gods and goddesses
- D: knights and acquires
19) A lexicographer is a person who writes-
- A: dictionaries
- B: novels
- C: graphs
- D: medical book
20) ‘There is no one so poor as a wealthy miser.’ This is an example of-
- A: paradox
- B: consonance
- C: synecdoche
- D: caesura
21) Which literary device can be found in the sentence “She sells sea shells on the sea shore”?
- A: rhyme
- B: Alliteration
- C: hyperbole
- D: Simile
22) ‘Bangladesh Biman’ your home at air- is an example of —
- A: Metaphor
- B: simile
- C: hyperbole
- D: personification
23) ‘The foggy day mock at my plan to wash clothes’ is an example of….
- A: simile
- B: metaphor
- C: allusion
- D: personification
24) ‘I fear and hope, I burn and freez in ice’ is an example of —
- A: onomatopoeia
- B: oxymoron
- C: hyperbole
- D: homophone
25) ‘Her voice is a music to his ears’ is an example of….
- A: simile
- B: Metaphor
- C: Personification
- D: allusion
Time: 60s |
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