Lit Devices - Hard

The defenseless victims were attacked in the cover of night.

What kind of diction is this sentence using?

• Formal

• Informal

• Colloquial

• Emotive

“What will Russian invasion look like in real life?” How can a sensible person even begin to answer such a question? Invasion of where? At what time of year? On what pretext? With what aim? A Russian invasion of China is going to look entirely different from a Russian invasion of Australia.

• Pedantic

• Abstract

• Poetic

• Slang

From The Great Gatsby, is this quote “I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool” . What is the device 'fool' is used as?

• Simile

• Metonymy

• Connotation

The ambiguous way in which colonizer and colonized regard one another. The colonizer often regards the colonized as both inferior as well as exotically other, while the colonized regards the colonizer as both enviable yet corrupt.

What is this an example of?

• ambivalence

• ambiguity

In Edmund Spencer's poem "the Faery Queen' , he uses personification to represent virtues as knights. This mode of representation is called ....

• metaphors

• allegory

• allusion

Call me a taxi, please. What is this an example of?

• Emotive diction

• Ambiguity

Must, should, need to, have to are all examples of ...

• infinitives

• High modality words

• Definitives

In The Chronicles of Narnia, Aslan is a symbolic Christ figure who dies for another’s sin, then resurrects to become king.

What is the literary device here?

• metaphor

• personification

• anthropomorphism

• allegory