Literary Devices

Question 1

Refers to phrases and hints that set the stage for a story to unfold and give the reader a hint of something that is going to happen without revealing the story

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Foreshadowing

Question 2

The author may explicitly state what will happen in the future

Answer 2

Direct Foreshadowing

Question 3

incorporates more subtle hints that reference a particular event or outcome in the text.

Answer 3

Indirect Foreshadowing

Question 4

The practice of rhyming words placed at the end of the lines in prose and poetry. It refers to the order in which particular words rhyme.

Answer 4

Rhyme Scheme

Question 5

AABB. One of the most basic rhyme schemes

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Coupled rhyme

Question 6

ABAB.

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Alternate rhyme

Question 7

ABBA

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Enclosed rhyme

Question 8

AAAA

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Monorhyme

Question 9

ABA BCB CDC DED EE. An italian form of poetry that consists of tercets.

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Terza rima

Question 10

AABBA

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Limerick

Question 11

concludes with four line stanza withe pattern ABAA

Answer 11

Villanelle

Question 12

simple repetition of a word within a sentence or a poetical line, with no particular placement of the words. It is a rhetorical technique to add emphasis, unity and or power

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Repetition

Question 13

The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive clauses that have different endings.

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Anaphora

Question 14

“O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?”

“I Have a Dream” by Martin Luther King Jr.

Answer 14

Anaphora

Question 15

Involves repetition of the last word or phrase across successive phrases, clauses or sentences.

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Epistrophe

Question 16

“When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child”

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Epistrophe

Question 17

Combination of anaphora and epistrophe. One word or phrase is repeated in the beginning and in the end.

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Symploce

Question 18

“When there is talk of hatred, let us stand up and talk against it. When there is talk of violence, let us stand up and talk against it”

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Symploce

Question 19

repetition of a word but using different meaning each time.

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Antanaclasis

Question 20

Your argument is sound, nothing but sound

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Antanaclasis

Question 21

repetition of words or phrase but giving opposite meanings each time.

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Antistasis

Question 22

“We must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately”

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Antistasis

Question 23

involves making a similar statement twice. First negatively, then with a positive twist.

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Negative-Positive Restatement

Question 24

Also known as palilogia. This is the repetition of a single word or phrase in immediate succession.

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Epizeuxis

Question 25

Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country

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Negative-Positive Restatement

Question 26

“O, horror, horror, horror!”

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Epizeuxis

Question 27

a simple and insightful, traditional saying that expresses a perceived truth based on common sense or experience.

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Proverbs

Question 28

a phrase or expression that typically presents a figurative, non-literal meaning attached to the phrase.

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Idiom