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Stylistic Devices
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A quiz for #students to #repeat #stylistic devices and #literary terms.
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"the protagonist suddenly finds a solution to his dilemmas because of divine intervention" ?
deus ex machina
ekphrastic
caesura
doppelganger
2
the practice of joining together two or more words in order to create an entirely new word
portmanteau
nemesis
asyndeton
anagram
3
"It’s no wonder everyone refers to Mary as another
Mother Teresa
" . Here, MT is an example for
symbol
personification
pun
allusion
4
"Easy come, easy go." is an example for
enumeration
parallelism
accumulation
repetition
5
"Santa’s helpers are known as subordinate Clauses." is an example for..?
personification
pun
symbol
irony
6
You can take the patriot out of the country but you cannot take the country out of the patriot.
paradox
chiasmus
contradiction
oxymoron
7
repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of neighbouring words
alliteration
analogy
allegory
allusion
8
term used for words such as
grunt, huff, buzz
and
snap
diction
onomatopeia
mood
imagery
9
a question to which the answer seems obvious
hypothetical question
rhetorical question
complex question
suggestive question
10
expression used in place of one that may be found offensive or suggest something unpleasant
simile
euphemism
paradox
hyperbole
11
the use of words and phrases to create “mental images” for the reader.
symbol
metaphor
imagery
onomatopeia
12
the opposite of an understatement is called
irony
hyperbole
synechdoche
oxymoron
13
The term refers to a single, related chunk of lines in poetry.
stanza
metre
iamb
foot
14
“
Repeat
that
again
” is a...?
pun
synechdoche
tautology
rhyme
15
iamb, trochee, dactyl, anapest are all examples of ..?
foot
metre
verse
rhythm