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Literary devices and figurative language
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Students
capped
their pens,
closed
their notebooks, and
zipped
their book bags and went home.
Pastoral
Parallel Structure
Aphorism
Adage
2
The use of angry and insulting language.
Invective
Sarcasm
Verbal Irony
Malapropism
3
The image of a dove with an olive branch is an example of:
Extended metaphor
Simile
Symbolism
Visual Imagery
4
The emotional content of a word
Connotation
Figurative Language
Denotation
Epic
5
The audience knows something that the characters in the drama don't
Adage
Bildungsroman
Dramatic Irony
Apostrophe
6
"The Tortoise and the Hare" is an example of:
Aphorism
Symbolism
Metaphor
Allegory
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A pun is
Satire
mockery
A play on words
caricature
8
The structure of a story
Allusion
Plot
Verisimilitude
Pathetic fallacy
9
The result of an action is the reverse of what the actor expected.
Postmodernism
Situational Irony
Oxymoron
Understatement
10
'The faucet went drip,drip,drip' is:
auditory imagery
onomotoepia
cacophony
olfactory imagery
11
'Cool suit' is:
Dissonance
Assonance
Alliteration
Consonance
12
"Her eyes were cold lakes, with the waves gently lapping, through them"
Extended metaphor
Allusion
Metaphor
Hyperbole
13
"the earth cried down on us, with tears falling from her cloudy eyes"
Personification
Imagery
Symbolism
Allusion
14
"I can resist everything except temptation" is an example of
Allegory
Imagery
Epigram
Allusion
15
Literal meaning of a word
Imagery
Symbolism
Denotation
Figure of speech
16
Ambiguity is
Contrast
Incoherence
Two or more meanings
Aphorism
17
Which is NOT an Oxymoron ?
Open secret
clearly confused
The living dead
The cold heat of day
18
'Economise with the truth' is
Aphorism
Epithet
Euphemism
Epigram
19
Which is a Hyperbole?
"He's brave like a lion"
"It's so cold, I'm going to freeze, to death!
"Iwould hangupon her very lips"
"I have nothing to declare except mygenius"
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"Divorces are made in Heaven" is
Epithet
Irony
Inversion
Hyperbole