MCQs of Literary Terms

11. To make your story more catchy and interesting you start comparing or contrasting two ideas with each other. it is an example of ….

a) Juxtaposition

b) Euphemism

c)  Alliteration

d) Allegory

12. You compare someone’s good or bad quality with a standard thing or living being; you use the word “as” or “like”; for example, you say he is as tall as a tower, etc.

a) Metaphor

b) Simile

c) Allegory

d) Hyperbole

13. Sometimes you get very emotional and you don’t compare someone’s qualities with a standard thing or living being; instead, you call someone the same living being direct. For example, you say my friend is a tiger. You mean to say; your friend is brave.

a) Simile

b) Hyperbole

c) Juxtaposition

d) Metaphor

14. A writer expects a particular feeling from an audience; such feelings are aroused by the dialogues or scenes. In literary terms; it is called….

a) Mood

b) Feeling

c) Realization

d) Reality

15. The writers sometimes use compound words; one of the two expresses contrdictory meaning ; for example, deafening silence, etc.

a) Contradiction

b) Oxymoron

c) Paradox

d) Juxtaposition

16. No doubt, the poets have to deep observation; they look deep into the things that cannot be done by a common man. Sometimes, a poet says that he sees beauty’s feet dancing here and there; the poet associate feet to beauty; in literary term it is…

a) Hyperbole

b) Simile

c) Allegory

d) personification

17. Especially in poetry, sometimes it so happens that a poet wants to emphasize a thing forcefully; he pronounces a particular word or phrase over and over again. It is an example of …..

a) Flashback

b) Epigraph

c) Repetition 

d) Mood

18.  A person sometimes cannot criticize someone directly; to avoid any quarreling situation he criticizes someone through parody, comic acts, or jokes. It is the example of ……

a) Satire 

b) Criticism

c) Hatred

d) Mood

19. Especially, in dramas sometimes a person speaks to himself aloud when there is nobody all around. It is called ……

a) Dialogue

b) Soliloquy

c) Self-absorption

d) Self-deception

20. The writers use figures, words, events, and situations to add to the importance of the main idea. This is called ……

a) Reference

b) Ideal

c) Symbolism

d) Realism