A narrator describes a stubborn landlord: "He had the patience of Job, waiting nine years for one rent check." Which term names the device in "the patience of Job"?

A chapter opens: "The pier creaked, fog swallowed the shoreline, and the gulls had gone silent." Which term names the atmosphere this description creates for the reader?

A reviewer writes, "This so-called masterpiece wasted two hours I will never get back." Which term names the writer's attitude toward the film, shown through that word choice?

Two brothers spend a story fighting over one field, lose a season's harvest, and finally plant it together. "Greed costs more than it gains" states what the story shows. Which term names that statement?

Soaked by a downpour on the walk to school, Dara grins and says, "What lovely weather we're having." Which term names this?

In a play, the audience watches a letter slip behind the desk while the character searches the room, certain her friend never wrote to her. Which term names this gap in knowledge?

A town's fire station burned to the ground while every truck was away fighting a grass fire miles off. Which term best names this event?

In chapter two, a character notices a hairline crack in the dam wall and shrugs it off. In chapter five the dam fails. Which term names the early detail's job?

Midway through a game scene, the narrative breaks off to show the coach at age ten dropping a fly ball, then returns to the game. Which term names this shift?

In a novel's final scene, one wilted rose is laid on a sister's grave, standing for a love that outlasted her. Which term names what the rose is doing?

A paragraph reads: "Cinnamon steam curled off the cups, the floorboards were warm, and somewhere a spoon rang against china." Which term names the device the writer uses here?

A story reads: "The old truck coughed twice, thought it over, and refused to start." Which term names the device the writer uses here?

"I have told you a million times to shut that gate," the farmer said, though he had mentioned it twice that week. Which term names the device in his complaint?

A falling oak crushes the roof of Marcus's car flat, and he tells his neighbor, "It picked up a small dent." Which term names how he describes the damage?

A magazine column praises a city council for "bravely" spending two years choosing a bench color, using fake praise to expose the council's delays. Which term names this kind of writing?

A speech on food waste opens with a two-sentence true story about the speaker's grandmother saving bread crusts through a hard winter. Which term names that brief story?

An essay arguing for later school start times includes a paragraph beginning, "Some families say buses cannot be rescheduled," before answering that objection. Which term names the objection itself?

A speaker asks a crowd, "How long should any child wait for clean drinking water?" and moves straight on without waiting for anyone to reply. Which term names this device?

In a story, Nia lies awake all night arguing with herself about whether to tell her coach she broke a team rule. Which term names this kind of conflict?

A writer never says Theo is generous but shows him quietly paying for a stranger's lunch. Which term names this way of revealing a character?

Students often swap the words allusion and illusion. Which statement gives the difference correctly?

A narrator writes, "Her confidence was a steel door, shut and bolted." Which term names this comparison?

A story reads, "The rumor moved down the hallway like water finding a crack." Which term names this comparison?

Before the last inning, a coach tells a nervous pitcher to "keep your chin up." Which term names this expression?

A bakery sign reads, "Our bread rises to every occasion." Which term names the device in this sign?

A writer calls a shopper thrifty rather than stingy, though both describe someone careful with money. Which term names what makes thrifty sound kinder?

Which term names a word's literal dictionary meaning, stripped of any emotional coloring?

An author writes one character's speech as "Y'all fixin' to head out?" Which term names the variety of English this spelling shows?

A novel begins, "I did not know then what my sister had already decided." Which term names the narration this opening uses?

A narrator reports the private thoughts of every person in the waiting room, including the nurse, the inspector and the boy by the window. Which term names this narration?

In the structure of a plot, which term names the moment of greatest tension, where the main conflict turns?

Caged birds appear in seven separate scenes of a novel, each time when a character is denied a choice. Which term names an image repeated across a work like this?

A chapter ends with the diver's air gauge in the red and the hatch jammed shut, and the story leaves her there. Which term names this closing technique?

A science writer explains the immune system by walking through a city fire department: sensors that detect trouble, alarms that spread word, and crews that respond. Which term names this way of explaining?

A line of a poem reads, "Pale petals drop past the porch." Which term names the sound device at work?

A sentence reads, "The screen door banged, the kettle hissed, and gravel crunched under the tires." Which term names the kind of words banged, hissed and crunched are?

A coach calls the season's worst loss a "painful gift" that taught more than any win. Which term names a short phrase that joins two opposite words?

A company memo says workers are being "released to new opportunities" rather than saying they are losing their jobs. Which term names this softened wording?

A student's draft ends, "At the end of the day, everything happens for a reason." Which term names an expression worn out by overuse?

Which term names the time and place in which a story's events occur?