To lighten the mood between tragic scenes in his plays, which device did William Shakespeare employ? 

Which of the following terms best describes a writer’s effort in rhetoric to appeal to an audience’s emotions or passions? 

_________  points to a situation in which there is a mixture of harsh and inharmonious sounds.

Which of the following genres might be the best place to find something being “lampooned”? 

All writing contains a situation that surrounds a writer’s act of writing. This simple concept is known as _______________. 

Lenny’s insistence on petting fury animals early in the novel Of Mice and Men was a predictor of what would occur later in the book. His  actions earlier in the story were a form of _________. 

Dialogue, tone, point of view, and tense are all examples of __________. 

Which of the following represents “a literary genre that started as a movement in late nineteenth century in literature, film, theater, and art and is a type of extreme realism”? 

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?