6. What does the rhetorical term “onomatopoeia” mean?
(A) The use of words or expressions that have become obsolete
(B) A contrast or opposite in meaning between two words
(C) An expression employed in everyday speech or writing
(D) A word that imitates the sound it represents
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7. Which of the following lines is an example of “metaphor”?
(A) I burn and freeze
(B) Is he smart? Why, the man is an Einstein
(C) It is the star to every wand ‘ring bark
(D) Flowers are lovely, love is flowerlike
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8. Who wrote The Canterbury Tales?
(A) William Langland
(B) Geoffrey Chaucer
(C) John Gower
(D) Sir Thomas Malory
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9. Who wrote The Fairie Queene?
(A) Edmund Spenser
(B) John Donne
(C) John Dryden
(D) Sir Philip Sidney
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10. Who wrote Doctor Faustus?
(A) Robert Greene
(B) Robert Nash
(C) William Shakespeare
(D) Christopher Marlowe
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