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The war between the thunder and lightning raged on through the night.

Metaphor

In the excerpt from, "The Raven", which line contains an inversion?

"Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;

Which of the following quotes is an example of parallelism?

"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give." - Winston Churchill

a figure of speech in which the grammar of one phrase is inverted in the following phrase, such that two key concepts from the original phrase reappear in the second phrase in inverted order; "Fair is foul and foul is fair"-Shakespeare

Chiasmus

Which of the following quotes from Heller's Catch-22 contains an example of antithesis?

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up was to come down alive.

Which of the following sentences is an example of synesthesia?

His green jealousy sat thick in his stomach.

Which of the following examples is NOT an example of synecdoche?

His salary brings home the bacon for our family.

"I have a million things to do today," complained Mrs. Gilbert as she loaded the twins into the car.

Hyperbole

Which of the following Oscar Wilde statements is a paradox?

I can resist everything except temptation.

Which of the following lines is an example of BOTH anadiplosis and antimetabole?

I know what I like and I like what I know.

Ex: A rolling stone gathers no moths. (moss) Ex: I remember because I have photogenic memory. (photographic)

Malapropism

The Oval Office issued a statement condemning the terrorist attack.

Metonymy

The room buzzed with excitement as everyone waited for the President to arrive

Onamotopeioa

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."- George Orwell

Paradox

"In years gone by, there were in every community men and women who spoke the language of duty and morality and loyalty and obligation." -William F. Buckley

Polysyndeton

Which of the following sentences is an example of zeugma?

She ran the marathon and her mouth.

His breath smelled like rotting logs in a swamp

Simile

Definition: a literary device in which a part of something represents the whole, or it may use a whole to represent a part. "boots on the ground" for soldiers being deployed in an area

Syndecdoche

Consider the following proverb: "You can't teach an old dog new tricks." Why is this an example of juxtaposition?

The contrast between old and new demonstrates the difficulty of learning new things at an old age or after getting stuck in one's ways.

Which of the following statements is NOT an example of reductio ad absurdum?

When speaking to a friend about meeting someone new, you say "He's not the friendliest person." Correct Answers Your Answers PREV NEXT

Which of the lines from Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" contains an analogy?

Where the fin of the shark cuts like a black chip out of the water,

Which of the following is NOT an example of antimetabole?

He told me he isn't coming back. He's not returning, he said. Correct Answers Your Answers PREV NEXT

Every man, every woman, every child, should be loved.

Anaphora

To err is human; to forgive divine.

Antithesis

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."

Aphorism~~NOT: Allusion

"The breath coming out the nostrils was so faint it stirred only the farthest fringes of life, a small leaf, a black feather, a single fiber of hair." Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Asyndeton

"Why can't we all just get along?"

rhetorical question

Which of the following sentences does not contain an example of synecdoche?

Can you pass me a Kleenex?

Which of the following is an example of enumeration?

"...we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics,..." Martin Luther King Jr.

Which of the following is an example of malapropism?

"I'm fading into Bolivian." - Mike Tyson

Which of the following is an example of chiasmus?

"Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate." - John F. Kennedy