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Question 1

Epistrophe
(syntactical)

Answer 1

Repetition of a word or expression at the end of a successive clause, phrase, sentence or verse.

Question 2

Of the people. By the people. For the people.

Answer 2

Epistrophe
(syntactical)

Question 3

Euphemism
(literary)

Answer 3

Substitution of mild, indirect or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, blunt or harsh.

Question 4

“passed away” rather than “died”

Answer 4

Euphemism
(literary)

Question 5

Euphony
(poetic)

Answer 5

Derived from the Greek word “euphonious” meaning “sweet-voiced”; can be defined as the use of words and phrases that are distinguished as having a wide range of noteworthy melody, soothing or loveliness in the sounds they create.

Question 6

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss’d cottage trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core…

Answer 6

Euphony
(poetic)

Question 7

Foil
(literary)

Answer 7

A character used as a source of contrast, usually to the protagonist, and brings out the protagonist’s moral, emotional or intellectual qualities so as to emphasize that specific quality.

Question 8

Sherlock Holmes- tall, skinny, leaps into plans without explanations and follows up on wild clues

Doctor Watson- short, stout, asks realistic questions and accepts more conventional theories

Answer 8

Foil
(literary)

Question 9

Hyperbole
(literary)

Answer 9

Exaggeration.

Question 10

“I’ve heard it a million times!”

Answer 10

Hyperbole
(literary)

Question 11

Juxtaposition
(literary)

Answer 11

Placing 2 images/symbols/ideas close together for the purpose of comparing/contrasting.

Question 12

Comparison of God’s goodness and Satan’s evil qualities.

Answer 12

Juxtaposition
(literary)

Question 13

Litotes
(literary)

Answer 13

Understatement in which a thing is affirmed by stating the negative of its opposite.

Question 14

He was not displeased.

It wasn’t my best moment.

Answer 14

Litotes
(literary)

Question 15

Metonymy
(literary)

Answer 15

Substitution of a term for one thing by doing something closely associated with it.

Question 16

“The press” to refer to the media.

“The suits” were at the meeting, “suits”=business people.

Answer 16

Metonymy
(literary)

Question 17

Mood
(literary)

Answer 17

A literary element that evokes certain feelings in the readers through words and descriptions.

Question 18

Charles Dickens creates a calm and peaceful atmosphere to set the ___ in his novel “Pickwick Papers”.

Answer 18

Mood
(literary)

Question 19

Motif
(literary)

Answer 19

A conspicuous recurring element, such as a type of incident, a device, a reference, an object, an idea or verbal formula which appears frequently in a work of literature.

Question 20

The emotion of jealousy is common in Shakespeare’s “Othello”.

The use of the color white is important in Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness”.

Answer 20

Motif
(literary)