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9)In which of the following texts would you usually find informative
techniques?
Charity leaflets and job advertisements
Recipes and directions
Directions and posters
10)What do you need to consider when using techniques within your writing?
That the title fits the genre of the text
That the layout of the text is suitable
That the vocabulary used fits with the genre of the text
11)The flowers danced in the breeze' is an example of which stylistic device?
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
Allusion (a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary
or political significance
12) The water was so cold, I saw fish wearing jackets' is an example of _____.
metaphor
personification
hyperbole
simile
13)Metaphor and simile are two stylistic devices that use comparison to put an
image in the reader's mind for clarity, understanding, and engagement. _____
uses 'like' or 'as' to directly compare two unlike things. _____ implies a
comparison by speaking of one thing as something else.
metaphor; simile
Both can use 'like' or 'as,' and both are comparisons.
simile; metaphor
None of the answers are correct.
14) What figure of speech is represented in the sentence “He was sweating like
a racehorse.”
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Simile
15)What figure of speech is represented in the sentence “He was sweating like a
racehorse.”
Metonymy (the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated, both from
literature and in everyday life.)
Litote(employs an understatement by using double negatives or, in other words, a positive statement expressed by negating
its opposite expressions.)
Oxymoron(two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect)
Zeugma(a word that has more than one meaning is used with one meaning in one part of a sentence and with a
different meaning in another part of the sentence, usually in order to produce a humorous effect
Anaphora
18). It was a representative gathering.
metaphor
metonymy(the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated, both from
literature and in everyday life)
pun
paradox
zeugma
irony
pun
21)The hospital was crowded with the surgically interesting products of the
fighting in Africa.
metaphor
periphrasis (use of excessive and longer words to convey a meaning which could have been conveyed with a
shorter expression)
paradox
22) She has broken his heart and, in despair, he has broken his guitar.
oxymoron
metaphor
euphemism
Irony
epithet
24). You have a lot of work to do,so I'll lend you a hand.
hyperbole
metonymy
periphrasis