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Which of the following is a characteristic of a foil in literature?
They contrast the main character to highlight certain qualities
Which of the following best describes a romance in literature?
A story about a knight rescuing a fair maiden
Which of the following is an example of a riddle?
A puzzling question presented to the reader
What is an example of verbal irony?
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What is the main characteristic of an allegory?
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What is an elegy?
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What is a lament?
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Which literary technique serves as a companion piece to a story within a story?
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What is an original pattern or model from which all other things of the same kind are made?
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Who is the speaker or the 'voice' of an oral or written work?
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What is used to identify and establish the time, place, and mood of the events of a story?
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What is a pause somewhere in the middle of a verse called?
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What is a compound poetic phrase substituted for the usual name of a person or thing called?
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What is a proclamation of things a character has done or will do in an epic called?
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What is the principle or determining cause or will by which things in general are believed to come to be as they are or events to happen as they do?
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