Rhetorical Devices
Literature
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100
Repeating vowel sounds in words that are close together.
Assonance
100
These star-crossed lovers from Verona are celebrating their 623rd anniversary of death
Romeo and Juliet
100
A sentence that contains at least two independent clauses connected with either a semicolon or a comma that is followed by a coordinating conjunction
What is Compound Sentence
100
What country was the author of the books Anna Karenina and The Death of Ivan Ilyich from?
Russia
100
Winston Smith is arrested by the Thought Police in this dystopian novel
1984
200
The act of placing two or more things side by side to compare or contrast them, or to create an interesting effect
Juxtaposition
200
How many sisters are in the Bennet family of Jane Austen's most popular book?
Five: Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Catherine (Kitty), and Lydia
200
A sentence that contains one or more dependent clauses, also known as subordinate clauses, in addition to an independent clause.
What is a complex sentence
200
This Victorian London author wrote over 20 books in his lifetime and coined the phrase "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times"
Charles Dickens
200
Anthem by Ayn Rand and We by Yevgeny Zamyatin are considered to be this type of novel.
What is Dystopian
300
Figure of speech in which the speaker poses a question and then answers the question.
Hypophora
300
Which Shakespeare play opens amid thunder and lightning and a meeting of three witches?
What is Macbeth
300
What part of speech is the word "That"
Adjective
300
The classic American novel, "Of Mice and Men" was written by which author?
John Steinbeck
300
This author sets his novels in the fictional Mississippi county of Yoknapatawpha
William Faulkner
400
This rhetorical device involves repeating words or phrases at the beginning of multiple sentences, clauses, or poetic lines
Anaphora
400
This magnum opus took this Russian author six years to complete. Containing over 600 characters and spanning approximately 15 years, few bibliophiles can boast reading its 1,444 pages.
War and Peace
400
known as one of the most debated topics in grammar, this punctuation mark earned its degree from the most prestigious university in the world.
Oxford Comma
400
This 19th-century American author, known for his horror fiction, was likely named after a Shakespearean character from King Lear.
Edgar Allen Poe
400
Ophelia; Hamlet
500
This rhetorical device repeats conjunctions to emphasize meaning
Polysyndeton
500
This spunky Southern Belle had three husbands throughout the Civil War: Charles Hamilton, Frank Kennedy, and Rhett Butler
Scarlett O'Hara
500
A sentence that gives instructions or commands
What is an Imperative sentence
500
What is William Shakespeare's son's name (similar to his play c. 1599 play Hamlet).
Hamnet
500
What is the name of Ms. Lang's published children's book?
Chip the Chicken