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Poetic Devices/Literary Terms Test

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5 Written Questions

5 Matching Questions

  1. Apostrophe
  2. Alliteration
  3. Litotes
  4. Tautology
  5. Simile
  1. a A comparison between two objects, using a specific word or comparison such as "like" or "as"
  2. b Understatement, for intensification, by denying the contrary of the thing being affirmed
  3. c A pattern of sound that includes the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
  4. d Repitition of an idea in a different word, phrase, or sentence
  5. e An absent person, an abstract concept, or an important object is directly addressed

5 Multiple Choice Questions

  1. Use of harsh, discordant sounds.
  2. Use of soothing, pleasant sounds.
  3. Putting two contradictory words together like "jumbo shrimp"
  4. A figure of speech which endows inanimate objects with human traits or abilities
  5. The use of words which imitate sound

5 True/False Questions

  1. AnastropheInversion of the normal syntactic order of words, for example: to market, went she.

          

  2. ConsonanceRepetition of consonant sounds

          

  3. AssonanceRepetition of vowel sounds

          

  4. MetaphorUse of soothing, pleasant sounds.

          

  5. SyllepsisUse of a word with two others, with each of which it is understood differently