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Literary Terms - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 231 times
- The average score is 6 of 16
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| an extravagant exaggeration | hyperbole | 83%
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| the occurence of the same letter or sound at the beginnning of adjacent or closely connected words | alliteration | 69%
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| the giving of human characteristics to inanimate objects | personification | 67%
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| a figure of speech where contradictory trems appear side by side | oxymoron | 61%
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| words meant to depict a sound | onomatopoeia | 53%
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| a narrative that serves as an extended metaphor | allegory | 44%
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| using decorous language as a substitute for vulgarities | euphemism | 36%
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| another character in a story who contrasts with the main characte to highlight one of their attributes | foil | 35%
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| a figure of speech which uses a part of an object as a name for the whole | synecdoche | 34%
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| the repetition of a word or phrase at the begginning of successive clauses | anaphora | 32%
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| intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive | didactic | 22%
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| a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases | chiasmus | 18%
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| the misuse of words for comic effect by substituting similar words | malapropism | 17%
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| a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses | zeugma | 17%
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| the depiction of a connection between two different senses | synesthesia | 16%
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| figures of speech that use an understated statement of an affirmative by using a negative description | litotes | 14%
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