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A review of literary elements
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Which is not an example of Synecdoche?
She is wise wrinkles and all
All hands on deck
The suits will decide our fate
The gray beards certainly claim to know
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Foil is all but one
A character that contrasts with another character
the antagonist
Highlights particular qualities of another character
In some cases, a subplot to the main plot
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Situational irony is all but one
Irony involving actions opposite from what is expected
Often used incorrectly in place of coincidence
Incongruity between expectations and reality
Audience knows about the situation but the characters do not
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a pithy saying or remark expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way is
an epigram
an epithet
an authorial
an oxymoron
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Aside is all but one
could be a soliloquy
is usually used as comic effect
could be the thoughts of a character
a remark by a character that is not heard by others
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Invective
is used only as a poetic device
is descriptive of a vice
is harsh abusive language
is a denunciation
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"His fingers rapped and pounded the door" is an example of
Caesura
Cacophony
Chiasmus
Consonance
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An Octave is
a collection of four stanzas
a four line stanza followed by a four line stanza
a poem or stanza of eight lines
high level interpreted language
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Verbal Irony is
when something happens that is different from expectations
irony in which actions have an effect opposite from intended
words expressing something contrary to truth or feeling
incongruity between expectations and reality
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Which is not a metaphor?
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day
Life is like a river flowing through you and me
Her voice is music to his ears.
The assignment was a breeze.
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"The time is out of joint, O cursed spite/That ever I was born to set it right!" is
an example of cacophony
an example of assonance
an example of alliteration
an example of a couplet
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Dramatic irony is
is in Robert Frost's "Mending Wall."
expressed through the voice of a character
when the audiences knows and the character(s) does not
used with Marlow going up river
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"All's fair in love and war" is an example of
Oxymoron
Symbolism
Metaphor
Juxtaposition
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a colloquial phrase is
the use of vulgar or bad words
mistaken for connotation of disapproval
ordinary or familiar conversation
an outstandingly worded sentence
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Which is a simile?
Her laughter was like a warm blanket or a familiar song
The wind talked and sang throughout the day
He is the Tiger Woods of the golf team.
Her laughter was was music to his soul
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A Sonnet has all but one
a poem written in ABAB CDCD EFEF GG scheme
a poem written in iambic pentameter
a poem with four quatrains
a poem written in 14 lines
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an ode is
a type of romantic poem
the style which made Poe famous
always written in ABAB quatrains
a formal lyric poem that celebrates a person, place, thing..
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A stanza of four lines is known as
an octrain
a heroic couplet
1/3 of a sonnet
a quatrain
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Free Verse are all except
do not follow a scheme and rules
known as vers libre which is a French word
Have regular meter and rhythm
based on normal pauses and natural rhythmic phrases
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Which is not an example of Metonymy?
The Oval Office was busy in work
The pen is mightier than the sword
The school sent an email
The students study for the exam
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Anti-Hero
is one who lacks heroic attributes
is the antagonist
is a central character
is the protagonist
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Euphony shares all of these features except
harmonious consonants such as "l, m, n, r" sounds
soft consonants w, s, y to create pleasant sounds
use of long vowels that are more melodious than consonants
hard loving sounds from consonants like z, k, ck
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a mournful or sad poem, particularly a lament for the dead, is known as
an epigraph poem
an elegy poem
a sonnet
Petratchian Poetry
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Symbol
an object that strands for itself and a graeter idea
an object that stands for itself and a greater idea
an object that stands for itself
an object that stands for something greater than itself
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Proverb is all except
a short, memorable saying
a general truth or piece of advice
popularly known and repeated
a metaphoric statement
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Personification is all but?
My alarm clock yells at me every morning
Lightning danced across the sky
Traffic moved like a sea turtle on the sand
The car complained as the key was turned
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Enjambment is all but
the opposite of end-stopped
primarily used in prose and non-fiction
the running over of a sentence from one poetic line to next
a line that continues without punctuation
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Which is a Paradox
icy hot
All of the above
run slowly
Sometimes you need to be cruel to be kind
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"Men sell the wedding bells" is an example of
Assonance
Cacophony
Alliteration
Cadence
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Antagonist
Is always a minor character
Is a flat character
Is an opposition to the protagonist
A character that goes through change
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An Anecdote is not
intended to support or demonstrate some point
a real event
imparting a deeper meaning
a short interesting story
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"But a better butter makes a batter better" is an example of
Assonance
Cacophony
Cadence
Alliteration
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All are Euphemisms except one
Passed away
The birds and the bees
Wrong answer
Put to sleep
