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1What is alliteration?
- Athe occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
- Bresemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words, arising particularly from the rhyming of two or more stressed vowels, but not consonants (e.g. sonnet, porridge ), but also from the use of identical consonants with different vowels (e.g. killed, cold, culled ).
2What is enjambment?
- AMild expression used to replace a harsh one.
- BA poetic technique, when a sentence or phrase runs over more than one line (or stanza). This assists the flow of a poem.
3What is personification?
- A the act of lending a human quality, emotion or ambition to a non-human object or being.
- B the practice of attaching human traits and characteristics with inanimate objects, phenomena and animals.
4What is hyperbole?
- A a literary device wherein the author uses specific words and phrases that exaggerate and overemphasize the basic crux of the statement in order to produce a grander, more noticeable effect.
- Bthe distinctive tone or tenor of an author’s writings.
5What is circumlocution?
- AShort, simple sentences or truncated sentences create tension, haste or urgency; compound or complex sentences are slower, often feature in formal texts.
- Ba form of writing where the writer uses exaggeratedly long and complex sentences in order to convey a meaning that could have otherwise been conveyed through a shorter, much simpler sentence.
6What is an authorial Intrusion?
- A a literary device wherein the author penning the story, poem or prose steps away from the text and speaks out to the reader.
- Ba sort of introduction to a story that usually sets the tone for the story and acts as a bit of a backgrounder or a “sneak peek” into the story.
7Is this an example of amplification? "It’s no wonder everyone refers to Mary as another Mother Teresa in the making; she loves to help and care after people everywhere- from the streets to her own friends."
- ATrue
- BFalse
8Is this an example of euphony?
It has been said that the phrase “cellar door” is reportedly the most pleasant sounding phrase in the English language.- ATrue
- BFalse
9What is an archetype?
- AHarsh sounds in a sentence or phrase.
- Ba reference to a concept, a person or an object that has served as a prototype of its kind and is the original idea that has come to be used over and over again.
10Is this an example of a metaphor?
"In the same way as one cannot have the rainbow without the rain, one cannot achieve success and riches without hard work."- ATrue
- BFalse
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