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QuizMultiple Choice

David Foster Wallace’s Postmodern Voices

Question 14 • HVA 26-27 IM English ELA 11 A

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
allusion
B
alliteration
C
irony
D
metaphor
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