Literary And Poetic Devices II Question Preview (ID: 13852)

a) the repetition of vowel sounds

b) the repetition of sounds at regular or determined intervals

c) the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables

d) the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

a) two word pairs that share the same relationship

b) two word pairs that have nothing to do with each other

c) two words that mean the same thing

d) two words that have opposite meanings

a) the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

b) the repetition of vowel sounds in non-rhyming words

c) looking back in a story to see what happened earlier

d) looking forward in a story to see what is to come

a) an extreme exaggeration

b) a sound effect like

c) the most exciting part of a story

d) a series of words on a page

a) someone says the opposite of what they mean, e.g. sarcasm

b) the reader knows something that one of the characters doesn't know

c) a phrase that means something different from what the individual words in it appear to mean

d) it's when what happens is unexpected by everyone

a) a comparison between two unlike things using like or as

b) the repetition of sounds at regular or determined intervals

c) a comparison between two unlike things, in which one thing is the other

d) a musical quality created by a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

a) a musical quality created by a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

b) the ability to dance to your favorite song

c) giving human traits to something that isn't human

d) writing that creates a picture in the reader's mind by appealing to the five senses

a) a person, place, thing, or idea

b) a word that expresses action or a state of being

c) a word that modifies a noun or pronoun

d) a person, place, or thing that represents something beyond itself

a) a reference to a famous person or event

b) a short story written to entertain the reader

c) a group of lines that form a division or unit in a poem

d) a sequence of words on the page

a) intentionally misusing words, particularly homophones, for comic effect

b) two words that sound alike, but have different spellings and meanings

c) a word that means the opposite of another

d) a word that means the same as another