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English Literature Techniques - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 27 times
- The average score is 13 of 50
Answer Stats
| Description | Technique | % Correct |
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| A direct comparison saying one thing is another, which is not literally aplicable. "Time is a thief." | Metaphor | 74%
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| Words that imitate sounds "Bang!" | Onomatopoeia | 74%
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| Extreme exaggeration. "I've told you a million times!" | Hyperbole | 70%
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| Short personal story "From my experience, I've had a tree explode in my face during the winter." | Anecdote | 57%
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| Giving human qualities to non-human things. "The trees danced in the wind." | Personification | 57%
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| Two contradicting words together. "Bittersweet." | Oxymoron | 52%
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| Words starting with the same letter "The still, silver, silent, sea." | Alliteration | 48%
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| Hinting at future events. Grunkle Stan holding Ford's glasses in episode 16, "Carpet Diem". | Foreshadowing | 48%
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| Placing contrasting ideas side by side. "Better late than never." | juxtaposition | 43%
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| Repeated "s" sounds "The sneaky snake slithered." | Sibilance | 43%
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| A comparison using "like" or "as". "She ran like the wind." | Similie | 43%
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| Question not expecting an answer "You think I wanted thing's to end this way?" | Rhetorical question | 39%
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| Appeal to logic. a rhetorical technique to capture an audiences sense of logic reason and intellect. | Logos | 35%
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| Weather reflecting tone or emotion, used to create a atmosphere or mirror a character's internal state. "The angry storm." | Pathetic fallacy | 35%
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| Appeal to emotion. A rhetorical technique defined as an appeal to the audiences emotions used to persuade by triggering emotions. | Pathos | 35%
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| Repetition at the beginning of sentences "We'll fight for our country, we'll die for our country, we'll win for our country!" | Anaphora | 30%
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| Appeal to credibility. Represents the moral values credibility and attitudes that define behavior. In rhetoric, based on the speaker's credibility. | Ethos | 30%
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| visually descriptive writing appealing to the senses "The sour smell of smoke filled the room." | Imagery | 30%
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| Contrast between expectation and reality. An astronomer being afraid of the dark. | Irony | 30%
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| Grouping ideas is threes "She's pretty, kind, caring and so much more!" | Rule of three/Triadic structure | 30%
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| A reference to another text, event, religion, or myth. The amphibia episode "Wax museum" featuring Grunkle Stan and Soos from Gravity Falls. | Allusion | 26%
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| Repeated vowel sounds "Slow road home." | Assonance | 26%
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| Scene set in the past In the episode "A Tale of Two Stans." we see Ford's and Stan's childhood. | Flashback | 26%
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| Matching end sounds Cat/hat, bat/pat, etc. | Rhyme | 26%
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| A object representing a deeper idea/concept Doves representing peace. | Symbolism | 26%
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| Turning point in a poem " I thought the dark was empty, silent and still,but then it answered back. " | Volta | 26%
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| Ending with unresolved tension "He left into the forest, we have yet to recieve any info regarding his survival." | Cliffhanger | 22%
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| Informal everyday language "Gonna", "finna", "y'all", "ain't", etc | Colloquialism | 22%
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| Repeated consonant sounds "Sometimes you have to look up at the sky and simply wait and wonder." | Consonance | 22%
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| Speaking directly to reader "So you see, money isnt always everything." | Direct address | 22%
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| Using softer terms for something harsh. "She passed away" | Euphemism | 22%
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| Repeated symbols or ideas. Repeating references to a dead character. | Motif | 22%
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| Ending mirroes beginning The novel "Animal Farm" by George Orwell closes with the animals oppressed by a ruling class, the pigs. While the novel opens with oppression from Farmer Jones. | Cyclical structure | 17%
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| Words designed to provoke emotion "They are eating the dogs!" | Emotive language | 17%
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| Command sentence "Come here and sit." | Imperative | 17%
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| Statement sentence "And hereby i declare war on our neighbouring country." | Declarative | 13%
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| Repetition of hard explosive sounds like p, b, and t. "Bang, back to back." | Plosives | 13%
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| Sentence continues over line break in poetry. " I walked into the city because the city had finally become to loud to bear. " | Enjambment | 9%
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| Long sentences to build tension "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner features a sentence over 1,200 words long. | Long sentence | 9%
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| Brief sentence for impact "He stopped." | Short sentence | 9%
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| No conjuctions used. "I came, I saw, I conquered." | Asyndeton | 4%
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| Repetition at the end of sentences "See no evil, hear no evil." | Epiphora | 4%
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| Question sentence "Could you pass me the salt?" | Interrogative | 4%
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| A paragraph consisting of one sentence "Then, he started running at me." | Single sentence paragraph | 4%
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| A deliberate pause in the middle of a line in a poem " The sky was burning - and nobody moved smoke climbed slowly upward. " | Causura | 0%
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| Deliberately using harsh language. "Come on, don't be a chicken!" | Dysphemism | 0%
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| Sentence showing strong emotion "Mom, dad, look! A pelican!" | Exclamatory | 0%
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| Understatement using negation. "The team didn't disappoint." | Lilotes | 0%
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| Words with strong connotations | Loaded language | 0%
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| Many conjunctions used "It's always this and that and everything!" | Polysyndeton | 0%
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