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The document contains 10 multiple choice questions that test understanding of different literary devices such as oxymoron, antithesis, climax, anticlimax, simile, zeugma, parallelism, and metaphor. The questions ask test-takers to identify which literary device is being used in given examples and provide definitions of those devices.

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Test Stylisitcs

The document contains 10 multiple choice questions that test understanding of different literary devices such as oxymoron, antithesis, climax, anticlimax, simile, zeugma, parallelism, and metaphor. The questions ask test-takers to identify which literary device is being used in given examples and provide definitions of those devices.

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TEST 5

1) Define the stylistic device employed in the given example “You have got two
beautiful bad examples for parents”:
a) allegory
b) oxymoron
c) asyndeton
d) hyperbole
e) simile

2) Define the stylistic device employed in the given example “Mrs. Nork had a
large home and a small husband”:
a) oxymoron
b) antithesis
c) asyndeton
d) hyperbole
e) simile

3) Define the stylistic device employed in the given example “Like a well, like a
vault, like a tomb, the prison had no knowledge of the brightness outside”:
a) oxymoron
b) antithesis
c) asyndeton
d) climax
e) simile

4) Define the stylistic device employed in the given example “He was
inconsolable – for an afternoon”:
a) oxymoron
b) antithesis
c) anticlimax
d) climax
e) simile

5) Define the stylistic device employed in the given example “Dorothy, at my


statement, had clapped her hand over her mouth to hold down laughter and chewing
gum”:
a) oxymoron
b) antithesis
c) anticlimax
d) climax
e) zeugma

6) A structure in which every successive word, phrase, or sentence is emotionally


or logically less strong than the preceding one is …
a) climax
b) anticlimax
c) polysyndeton
d) asyndeton
e) parenthesis

7) The expression of opposing or contrasting ideas laid out in a parallel structure


is …
a) parallelism
b) climax
c) antithesis
d) anticlimax
e) parenthesis

8) An explicit statement of partial identity (affinity, likeness, similarity) of two


different objects is …
a) metaphor
b) allusion
c) simile
d) personification
e) comparison

9) Define the stylistic device underlined in the following example: The ruby shall
be redder than a red rose, and the sapphire shall be as blue as the great sea. (Wilde)
a) simile
b) epithet
c) hyperbole
d) personification
e) onomatopoeia

10) Define the stylistic device underlined in the following example: With the
quickness of a long cat, she climbed up into the nest of coolbladed foliage.
(Lawrence)
a) epithet
b) allusion
c) implied simile
d) explicit simile
e) onomatopoeia

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