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1. In an oral performance, a singer ends each verse with the same line, which the audience repeats. What is the repeated line called?
  1. A couplet
  2. An aside
  3. A refrain
  4. A caesura

Answer: C. A refrain

A refrain is a line or phrase repeated at intervals, often with audience participation.

2. Which figure of speech is used in the sentence, 'The town was a sleeping giant'?
  1. Metaphor
  2. Simile
  3. Onomatopoeia
  4. Hyperbole

Answer: A. Metaphor

The town is directly identified with a giant without using 'like' or 'as', making the expression a metaphor.

3. The audience knows that a letter on stage has been forged, but the character who reads it believes it is genuine. What technique is illustrated?
  1. Comic relief
  2. A flashback
  3. A soliloquy
  4. Dramatic irony

Answer: D. Dramatic irony

Dramatic irony occurs when the audience knows something important that a character does not.

4. A poet writes, 'O Justice, hear the widow's cry!' Which device is most clearly used?
  1. Pun
  2. Apostrophe
  3. Personification
  4. Metonymy

Answer: B. Apostrophe

Apostrophe is direct address to an absent person, an abstract idea, or a thing.

5. Which description best defines blank verse?
  1. Unrhymed lines commonly written in iambic pentameter
  2. Rhyming couplets with six stresses in every line
  3. Free verse arranged in fourteen-line stanzas
  4. A poem consisting only of repeated refrains

Answer: A. Unrhymed lines commonly written in iambic pentameter

Blank verse is unrhymed verse, traditionally composed in iambic pentameter.

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