Literary Techniques

What is Epizeuxis?

• Repetition of the same word consecutively

• Repetition at the end of a sentence or clause

• Repetition at the start of a sentence or clause

• Repetition in between sentences or clauses

Answer explanation

"Sweet-scented jasmine clinging to the walls," is an example of:

• Hypophora

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Sibilance

• Anthropomorphism

What is "a small girl with a big heart" an example of?

Answer explanation

Euphemism- A short or amusing story about a real incident or person

• TRUE

• FALSE

Answer explanation

What is the difference between oxymoron and paradox?

Answer explanation

oxymoron- contradictory words

paradox- contradictory ideas

What are the four different types of nouns?

• modal, concrete, proper, common

• common, proper, creative, modal

• proper, abstract, concrete, common

• common, modal, proper, improper

Answer explanation

common- name general items

proper- specific people, events or places

concrete- experienced by the senses

abstract- thought's ideas or feelings

Which of these is NOT a preposition?

• beneath

• because

• above

• between

Answer explanation

because is a conjunction

What is a Synechdoche?

• A brief reference to a person, historical event, work of art, character to make a comparison

• A shorter form of sentence which some words have been omitted, but it retains the same meaning.

• Two words with different meanings that sound the same used with an amusing effect

• Indicating a person or object by using a part to represent the whole

Answer explanation

What is "A song as pure as the rain washed air" an example of?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Foreshadowing

The pilot has a fear of heights is an example of satire

• TRUE

• FALSE

Answer explanation

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