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What of the following describes the purpose of allusions?
to provide an illustration to support the text to provide a comparison
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What is direct characterization?
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Dramatic Irony occurs when the reader has information that one or more of the
characters does not have. a. True b. False
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Select the correct answer.
Why does Bierce use a flashback in section 2 of "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" instead of
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Verbal Irony is when the character says exactly what they mean. a. True b. False
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What is irony?(1 point) Responses a literary technique that creates a heightened effect through deliberate exaggeration a
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How is "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" an example of the author using social realism?
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what is diction in this poem
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The simile describing tom's voice as
"Tom talked incessantly, exulting and laughing, but his voice was as remote from Jordan and
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What does it mean when an author uses a chronological and necessarily episodic structure to keep their main character at the
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Which example show a narrative technique that an author could use to most effectively reveal a characters personality?
Have the
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To show the similarities between Stanley and Elya in the book Holes, Louis Sachar uses
a parallel structure. chronological
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Which of the following sentences illustrates that The Call of the Wild is in third-person omniscient narration? (1 point)
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Could you explain to me how an author uses symbolism in literature?
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Which of the following is not an example of indirect characterization?
"go shake your ears" "O good Antonio" "a mellifluous
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A frame story's purpose is to:
bring context and greater meaning to a piece of literature. provide ample sensory details for the
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Read this excerpt from Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi:
She is long and sharp and trim and pretty; she has two tall,
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Which word describes the way a writer chooses to write their piece
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Is this an example of an assonance?
"Let me in," Said the pin.
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What is a simile?
This site will give you a definiton and examples. http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/simile.html would
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What of the following describes the purpose of allusions?
A. To provide a comparison of the ideas in the text B. To provide an
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When might a writer use hyperbole?
to create a more formal tone in a piece of writing to separate fact from opinion to compare
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On "The Destructors" by Graham Greene
In "The Destructors," Greene uses a lot of ______ in the boy's language to enrich their
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diverge
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What is irony?(1 point) Responses a literary technique that shows a contrast between expectations and reality a literary
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What is irony?(1 point) Responses a literary technique that figuratively compares two things that are otherwise unrelated a
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How does sensory language affect tone in literary texts?(1 point)
Responses It uses words that relate to the five senses to
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Why do authors use sensory language to create imagery?(1 point)
Responses Sensory language immerses readers deeply into a story,
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Blue Berry
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The author’s purpose in using dialogue in this story is to—
Responses A explain why the narrator fears her parents’ old
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How does sensory language affect tone in literary texts?(1 point)
Responses It uses vivid details to help readers create a mental
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Which of the following is an example of indirect characterization?(1 point) Responses “brave Macbeth” “brave Macbeth”
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Why might an author include a paradox in a detective story?(1 point)
Responses to establish a fantasy world to establish a
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Blue Berry
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Select the correct answers from the lists.(1 point)
Authors use the specific techniques of _______, , and _______ to establish
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What is a paradox?(1 point)
Responses a technique authors use to explain how they see the world a technique authors use to
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Blue Berry
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What is irony?(1 point)
Responses a literary technique that uses word choice to indicate how the author feels about a topic a
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Blue Berry
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What is irony?(1 point)
Responses a literary technique that figuratively compares two things that are otherwise unrelated a
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WHAT STRUCTURE WAS FEATURED IN "PERFECTLY IMPERFECT" WHEN VARIATION IS THE KEY TO SUCCESS BY DONNA BOZZONE? EXPLAIN YOUR ANSWER
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What is irony?(1 point)
Responses a literary technique that uses word choice to indicate how the author feels about a topic a
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Which of the following describes direct characterization? The author suggests information about a character through
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What is a hyperbole?(1 point) Responses a literary style used by most fiction writers a literary style used by most fiction
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What is the definition of allusions in literature? (1 point)
O expressions used for a descriptive effect that are not literally
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Can you please check these two sentences, again? I had misspelt a noun in my previous post.
1) Define the interior monologue
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What is 'predicting' and 'foreshadowing' and what is the difference between them?
How can I define "flashback'? Thanks for
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What comedic effects do puns and satire have in a drama?
A. Puns create comedy by playing with words, and satire creates comedy
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What is foreshadowing?
(1 point) A literary technique used to develop suspense or hint at future events A type of weather
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How does Richard Connell use
foreshadowing to build suspense in The Most Dangerous Game? (1 point) By introducing a mysterious
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Which of the following literary
techniques is NOT used to build suspense in "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson? (1 point)
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What emotions can an auther show though the way the character speaks.
Use examples
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Which line of dialogue might an author give to a character in a narrative to build indirect characterization?(1 point) Responses
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Read the following excerpt from Frederick Douglass's autobiography:
I found no severe trial in my departure. Which of these is
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