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David Foster Wallace’s Postmodern Voices — Quiz

Question 2 • Literature and Composition III

Read the excerpt from David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest . Three faces have resolved into place above summer-weight sportcoats and half-Windsors across a polished pine conference table shiny with the spidered light of an Arizona noon. These are three Deans—of Admissions, Academic Affairs, Athletic Affairs. I do not know which face belongs to whom. Which literary device is used in phrases such as “summer-weight sportcoats” and “polished pine”?

Answer
A
metaphor
B
alliteration
C
allusion
D
irony
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