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This document contains practice questions on literary devices, such as personification, hyperbole, and more. It's suitable for secondary school students studying English Literature.

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a. Personification b. Hyperbole c. Coda d. Internal Rhyme xiii O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been Cool'd a long age in the deep-delved earth, Tasting of Flora and the country green, Dance, and Provençal song, and sunburnt mirth! These lines are a good example of: a. Sarcasm b. Synaesthesia...

a. Personification b. Hyperbole c. Coda d. Internal Rhyme xiii O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been Cool'd a long age in the deep-delved earth, Tasting of Flora and the country green, Dance, and Provençal song, and sunburnt mirth! These lines are a good example of: a. Sarcasm b. Synaesthesia c. Inversion d. Mixed metaphor xiv "If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.” The writer of these sentences has used a device called: a. Amplification b. Anagram c. Analogy d. Liotes xv “To hit the nail on the head and put it in a nutshell,…” A famous humorist uses this utterance to make his readers laugh at: a. Clichés b. Idioms c. Phrases d. Ungrammatical English xvi “If Winter comes can Spring be far behind?” In this line, Winter and Spring are: a. Symbols b. Metaphors c. Similes d. Paradox xvii “As one great furnace flamed, yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible” “Darkness visible” is an example of a. Anacoluthon b. Oxymoron

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