Cloze vocabulary test

Rhyming words, initial word sounds, musical melodies, landmarks and other images can all be used as ______________ devices.

“So we may know our broken hearts are not alone . . .” is an example of a writer’s use of ______________, while “Burt’s Bees lip balm” shows a marketing strategy that uses ______________ to attract consumers.

Her sense of activism was forged within the _____________ of the Civil Rights era of the 1960s.

The pages are thick with ___________, in which Conrad describes dark and  impenetrable jungle, dangerous animals and bothersome insects, and intolerable heat and humidity.

___________ is the art of saying something while suggesting something else.

He was expert at changing his ____________ on a dime, cheerful and witty in one instant, dark and pensive in the next.

Having nothing but ____________ for the entire system, she would openly  ___________ her political adversaries in her many published writings.

The acceptability of using a ____________ or two when we speak doesn’t mean that the practice is equally acceptable when we write, especially when we are engaged in academic writing.

Abigail was much given to _____________, and one never knew where one stood with her, or whether her smiles were genuine or her anger was real.

Nevertheless, she appeared to be quite ______________ over the misplacement of her umbrella by the servant.