"She stood by me through thick and thin." The idiom used here means that she stood by the speaker:

through many difficult times over a long period.

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Literary Devices

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1
'Side' and 'hide' rhyme.
False
True
2
Some of the features of a hyperbaton (e.g. “Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall …”) are the following except for:
Words are not arranged in their normal order.
It is meaningless.
It interrupts the natural flow of sentences.
It is employed for emphasis and rhetorical effect.
3
Barbara baked banana bread, but it burned. This is an example of allusion.
False
True
4
Aristotle’s Rhetorical Triangle are three methods whereby a speaker can persuade an audience and they are:
Ethos, pathos and logos.
Paphos, logo and ethereal.
Eye contact, intonation and hand gestures.
Humour, force and tricks.
5
Day and night, conservative and liberal, slave and free are examples of:
Parallel structure (parallelism)
Synonyms
Antithesis (contrasting pairs)
Metaphors
6
An anecdote is...
a medicine to counteract a particular poison.
device/ the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind.
a story with a point.
Someone I haven't had the honor of meeting.
7
The following is an example of using an epizeuxis: "Life! Life! Life!"
False
True
8
Which of the following is not a type of imagery:
Digestive imagery
Visual imagery
Organic imagery
Auditory imagery
9
"She stood by me through thick and thin." The idiom used here means that she stood by the speaker:
when the speaker was fat and when the speaker was skinny.
through thick bushes and thin air.
when the speaker was confused.
through many difficult times over a long period.
10
Anaphora is a literary device that consists of repeating a sequence of words at the beginnings of neighboring clauses.
True
False

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