LITERATURE (Stylistic Devices)

The repetition of an initial consonant sound is called:

• imagery

• alliteration

• assonance

• symbol

“A moist young moon hung above the mist of a neighboring meadow” is an example of which literary device?

• Alliteration

• Symbol

• assonance

• Metaphor

Which literary device includes the use of words to express something different or opposite from their literal meaning, totally beyond our expectations?

• hyperbole

• irony

• simile

• symbol

“Water water every, but not a drop to drink”, is an example of which figurative language?

• symbol

• simile

• irony

• metaphor

“The woods are lovely, dark and deep,                                                                                                       But I have promiss to keep…”,                                                                                                                 In the above lines, Robert Frost used which type of  imagery?

• Olfactory imagery

• Auditory imagery

• Visual imagery

• irony

When an author uses words that appeal to our one or more senses is termed as:

(a)  

“The trees rustled as the wind whistled gently through the leaves” is the basic example of which imagery?

• Visual imagery

• olfactory imagery

• Kinesthetic imagery

• Auditory imagery

Writers use colors, animals, things, places or elements in order  to represent other things is termed as:

• symbol

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

Examples of symbol include:

• Crown-Wealth, Black-Death, Red-Angry

• Snake-Evil, Dove-Peace, Autumn- Middle age

• Both a and b

• none of the above

A literary device or figure of speech in which human qualities are given to a non-human subject is termed as:

• personification

• metaphor