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What is an aside?

• a brief remark that the audience can hear but characters cannot
• a lengthy speech in which one character is alone on stage
• speech in which a word has a double meaning
• a lengthy speech addressed to the other characters on stage

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They pulled towards a  ______________________  to get out of the wind.

• lee
• sage
• withy
• quiver

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having to do with artistic beauty

• aesthetic
• cantankerous
• enigma
• maverick

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What is the only word that the raven utters?

• Lenore
• Quoth
• Nothing
• Nevermore

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"The "Red Death" had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous." Define "pestilence."

• bugs 
• contagious disease
• famine
• war

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Which of the following is an example of personification?

• You are as a beautiful as a flower.
• The trees danced in the wind.
• I waited in line for 10 years!
• He is an encyclopedia of knowledge. 

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Holding the ___________________ gave the holder the right to speak. .

• fire

• conch

• specs

• bag

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Refers to the feelings and ideas a word evokes.

• Synonym

• Denotation

• Connotation

• Diction

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What literary device is present in the line below?

Mr. Fehlberg's stomach was like an about to burst bratwurst.

• Simile

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Verbal Irony

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Simile or metaphor?

She is as thin as a toothpick.

• Simile

• Metaphor

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