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MCAS Literary Terms (Group 1)
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Review of terms 1-12 of MCAS literary devices
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The emotion connected to a word is called the ...
alliteration
hyperbole
diction
connotation
2
Holden's manner of speech as a young rich kid growing up in the 1950s is referred to as...
dramatic monologue
diction
dialect
hyperbole
3
Speeches given by an individual character.
figures of speech
hyperbole
diction
dramatic monologue
4
The name of the record Holden buys for Phoebe
The Wizard of Oz
Little Shirley Temple
Little Shirley Beans
On the Good Ship Lollipop
5
metaphors, similes, alliteration, personification, cliches, idioms, epithets are all considered
figurative language
literary devices
all of the above
figures of speech
6
"Passed away" has a more positive _______________ than "kicked the bucket"
epithet
allusion
diction
connotation
7
A person's diction (choice of words) can be a part of their specific _____________________.
epithet
connotation
figures of speech
dialect
8
Referring to Holden Caulfield as a "beatnik Peter Pan" is an example of ...
hyperbole
epithet
alliteration
cliche
9
The expression, "I swear to God!" is an example of ...
dialect
anecdote
cliche
epithet
10
Two rhyming lines of poetry is referred to as ....
allusion
couplet
cliche
anecdote
11
A reference to a historical event or famous piece of literature such as The Bible or Greek Myth
allusion
cliche
alliteration
epithet
12
Love goes to love as boys from their books. But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.
cliche
epithet
couplet
dramatic monologue
13
The title The Catcher in the Rye is a(n) ____________________ to a famous poem by Robert Burns
anecdote
alliteration
connotation
allusion
14
Word choice is referred to as...
cliche
epithet
diction
dialect
15
Holden's story about the suitcases which illustrates his feelings about wealth is called...
anecdote
cliche
couplet
allusion
16
Repetition of the beginning consonant sound of nearby words is referred to as ...
diction
alliteration
anecdote
epithet
17
The message of a sonnet often occurs in last _________________ of the poem.
allusion
cliche
epithet
couplet
18
"We can smoke till they start screaming at us" is an example of...
couplet
alliteration
allusion
connotation
19
This is a common device that writers use to begin an essay.
dialect
cliche
anecdote
couplet
20
"It would take about a million years to clean the graffiti from the walls."
hyperbole
cliche
dialect
epithet
