Apostrophe refers to a speech or address to a person who is present or to a personified object and in plain view of the audience. 

Connotation and denotation are forms of determining aspects of which of the following? 

The Greek word meaning “funeral oration” is also known in literature as __________. 

__________ overemphasize the emotions of their characters, usually to elicit an emotional response from the reader or viewer. There is often an outlandishness to the situations and events in which characters find themselves.

Which of the following sentences provide the best example of bathos? 

Which of the following provides the best synonym for paradox? 

How might overstatement act as a similar rhetorical device as irony? 

The following example, taken from Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven, includes the use of which rhetorical device?  Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—Only this and nothing more.”

Which of the following represents “a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson, as told by Jesus in the Gospels”? 

Which of the following terms  are defined as “a picture, description, or imitation of a person in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect”?