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Duplicate of Literary Devices Review
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A review of literary terms for AP Lit and Comp students.
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Ekphrasis is predominantly a matter of structure.
Yes
No
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Synecdoche is primarily a matter of structure.
No
Yes
3
Litotes is primarily a matter of style.
No
Yes
4
Writing that comments upon another art work. "Flaming flowers that brightly blaze . . ."
ekphrasis
allegory
synesthesia
hyperbole
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"My vegetable love should grow vaster than empires, but more slow . . ."
metonomy
hyperbole
meiosis
llitotes
6
Parallelism is primarily a matter of structure.
No
Yes
7
"This is just to say . . ." William Carlos Williams
paradox
litotes
self-reference
persona
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Metonomy is primarily a matter of style.
No
Yes
9
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair."
allegory
hyperbole
anaphora
paradox
10
"By the sweat of your brow, you will eat your food" - Genesis 3:19
synechdoche
anaphora
hamartia
metonymy
11
From the Greek for "error": a tragic hero's error in judgment that brings about suffering.
hubris
hamartia
tragic flaw
persona
12
Anaphora is primarily a matter of structure.
No
Yes
13
Synesthesia is primarily a matter of style.
Yes
No
14
Chiasmus is primarily a matter of style.
No
Yes
15
Persona is primarily a matter of structure.
No
Yes
16
Similar patterns of grammatical structure and length: "To be, or not to be . . ."
self-reference
synethesia
persona
parallelism
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Hyperbole is primarily a matter of style.
No
Yes
18
Paradox is primarily a matter of style.
No
Yes
19
From the Latin word that means "that through which [a voice] passes".
persona
trope
anaphora
ekphrasis
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A device that reverses the order in which words or concepts were originally introduced.
chiasmus
self-reference
litotes
synethesia
21
Allegory is primarily a matter of style.
Yes
No
22
Self-reference is primarily a matter of style.
Yes
No
23
Charles Dickens uses this device to open
A Tale of Two Cities
metonomy
hamartia
persona
anaphora
24
A trope that makes an affirmative point by negating its opposite: "Not bad!"
parallelism
litotes
anaphora
ekphrasis
25
A metaphor in which a part signifies the whole.
mimesis
anaphora
metonymy
synedoche
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"The hard braying light is zebra'd black and white" - Edith Sitwell
synesthesia
hyperbole
anaphora
metonomy
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A narration of restricted meaning in which characters represent specific abstract ideas.
hyperbole
allegory
paradox
synedoche
