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Stylistic Techniques
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Questions in this quiz (8)
1'Great friends they turned out to be!' This is an example of -
- Ametaphor
- Birony
- Cexaggeration
- Dalliteration
2'It can take years to drive out of the city on a match day!' This is an example of -
- Ahyperbole
- Balliteration
- Cmetaphor
- Dpersonification
3'As the storm intensified, the trees shrieked angrily and lashed the air.' This sentence illustrates how an author uses ....
- AIrony
- Ba list of three
- Cpersonification
- Da simile
4On the day of an interview for a job in a bank a teenager came downstairs in jeans and a t-shirt. His mother said, ' I see you've dressed up for the occasion!' This is an example of -
- Airony
- Bmetaphor
- Chyperbole
- Demotive language
5'The waves washed wistfully over the shore.' Which of the following devices does this sentence illustrate?
- Aa list of three
- Bpersonification
- Crhetoric
- Dalliteration
6'The energy, the faith and the devotion which we bring to this endeavour will light our country and all who serve it.' In this sentence there is an example of -
- Aa list of three
- Bassonance
- Cforegrounding
- Dirony
7'Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests; snug as a gun'
This opening to a poem by Seamus Heaney contains an example of -- Airony
- Ba simile
- Cpersonification
- Dan oxymoron
8'And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can for you - ask what you can do for your country.' In this famous sentence from a speech by President Kennedy in 1961 there is an example of -
- Aa parallelism
- Bmetaphor
- Coxymoron
- Donomatopoeia
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- - practice in naming stylistic techniques
- Author
- Linda Castelletti
- Language
- English
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