Literary and Linguistic Devices Quiz

What is the term for speaking or writing that is intended to communicate or persuade?

• Anaphora

• Tone

• Rhetoric

• Imagery

Which term describes the repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses?

• Imagery

• Epistrophe

• Rhetoric

• Anaphora

What is the meaning of 'pernicious'?

• A set of beliefs or philosophies

• Unable to be taken away from or given away by the possessor

• An agreement

• Having a very harmful effect or influence

What does 'inalienable' mean?

• Treatment or circumstances that cause one to feel shame

• Unable to be taken away from or given away by the possessor

• To grant or bestow

• An official pardon for people who have been convicted of political offense

What is 'anaphora'?

• Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses

• An agreement

• A literary device with vivid sensory details

• An author's attitude toward a topic

Which literary device uses descriptive language to create a picture in the reader's mind?

• allusion

• foreshadowing

• epiphany

• imagery

treatment or circumstances that cause one to feel shame or to lose one's dignity

• self-esteem
• indignity

• confidence
• humiliation

an agreement

• pernicious

• indignity

• anaphora

• covenant

what is the meaning of inalienable?

• Inalienable refers to something that can be borrowed.
• Inalienable means easily transferable.
• Inalienable means unable to be taken away or transferred.
• Inalienable is synonymous with temporary.

an official pardon for people who have been convicted of political offense

• amnesty

• epistrophe

• anaphora

• imagery