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Which of these is a quotation positioned at the beginning of a work that sometimes introduces a particular theme

epigraph

Which of these is a literary work that is an account of the daily personal thoughts and experiences of an individual

diary

Which of these is a literary work that uses the supernatural and elements of horror and was popular in the late 1700s and early 1800s

Gothic Novel

How silver sweet sound lovers tongues by night like softest music to attending ears

how silver sweet sound lovers tongues by night

like softest music to attending ears

Which of these genres would an author use to record the events and personal experiences of his or her life

Memoir

Which literary device is used in this sentence The east edge of the earth was easily seen

Do you mean alliteration? Like "Whitley watches whales whisper to worms"

Which type of character is complicated and exhibits numerous qualities or traits and as a result seems like a real person

Round Character

What refers to a son's romantic obsession with his mother

Oedipus Complex is the name for a son's romantic obsession with his mother.

Which of these terms is defined as the use of praise to mock someone or something

Sarcasm

Which of these is a figure of speech in which contrasting or paradoxical ideas are presented in parallel form

antithesis

What form of ordinary written or spoken language is expressed without verse meter or rhyme

prose

What forms of organization arranges events in the order in which they occurred

chronological order

What literary term is used in this sentence sally ran faster than a herd of stampeding buffalo

Hyperbole.

Who wrote the book Seize the Day

Seize the Day was written by Saul Bellow. Published in 1956, Seize the Day was Saul Bellow's fourth novel about a failed actor who has to come to terms with his own personality and failures.

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