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What device is it?
100
Repetition of initial consonant sounds
What is alliteration?
100
a four-line stanze
What is a quatrain?
100
a group of lines forming a unit in a poem
What is a stanza?
100
the use of a repeated word or phrase for dramatic effect
What is repetition?
100
The "tasty treat tempted his tastebuds" is an example of this device.
What is alliteration?
200
a two line stanza
What is a couplet?
200
giving human attributes to an animal, object, or concept
What is personification?
200
a comparison of two seemingly unlike things using a word of comparison
What is a simile?
200
words that sound like they mean
What is an onomatopoeia?
200
"The test was like a dream come true" is an example of what literary device?
What is a simile?
300
the dictionary meaning of a word
What is denotation?
300
rhyming words that occur at the end of a line
What is a rhyme scheme?
300
a deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis
What is hyperbole?
300
a comparison of two seemingly unlike things
What is a metaphor?
300
"The boy's plan to escape showed the intelligence of Odysseus" contains what literary device?
What is an allusion?
400
the central insight gained from a given text
What is theme?
400
occurs when the reader knows something important that the characters do not
What is dramatic irony?
400
a reference to an event, person, or text
What is an allusion?
400
what a word suggests beyond its literal meaning
What is connotation?
400
A dentist with rotting, crooked, broken teeth would be an example of this.
What is irony?
500
the pattern of beats or stresses in spoken or written language
What is rhythm?
500
the writers or speakers attitude toward the subject, reader, or herself/himself
What is tone?
500
sensory details used to create word pictures for the reader
What is imagery?
500
addressing someone absent or dead as if they were present or alive
What is apostrophe?
500
The bald eagle, a peace sign, a red rose, and a green flag with the '12' on it are all examples of what?
What is a symbol?
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