F451
R&J: Literary Devices
R&J: Elements of Play
Poetry
Misc.
100
This is the genre that Ray Bradbury writes his novel in.
What is a dystopia?
100
Taylor Swift's song "Love Story" would be considered to contain this literary device.
What is an allusion?
100
When servants, the Nurse, or Mercutio speak in prose and make jokes, it serves this function in the play.
What is comic relief?
100
Identify the literary device in the following lines: "Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, / And often is his gold complexion dimm'd" (Sonnet 18).
What is personification?
100
This is unrhymed iambic pentameter that Shakespeare writes the majority of his play in.
What is blank verse?
200
This creature is symbolic of the hearth and is what the firemen call one of their tools.
What is a salamander?
200
This literary device occurs in the play when Juliet is torn between her love for Romeo and her sorrow over her cousin Tybalt's death when she speaks to herself.
What is an oxymoron?
200
When Romeo speaks out loud to himself at the start of the balcony scene is it called this.
What is a soliloquy?
200
A Shakespearean sonnet has three main criteria.
What are 14 lines, iambic pentameter, and specific rhyme scheme (ABAB/CDCD/EFEF/GG)?
200
Towards the beginning of the play, Romeo does this to make Juliet question whether or not his love is truly genuine.
What is he sneaks into the garden, listening to her speak?
300
This creature is symbolic of humanity's tendancy to create, destroy, and rebuild itself in cycles.
What is a phoenix?
300
In the following lines, identify the literary device: "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? / It is the east, and Juilet is the sun" (II.ii.2-3).
What is a metaphor?
300
Romeo and Tybalt are examples of this dramatic element used by Shakespeare to highlight different features of different characters.
What is a dramatic foil?
300
Identify the literary device in the following lines: "Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, / And summer's lease hath all too short a date" (Sonnet 18).
What is imagry?
300
These four things are types of titles that should be put in quotes.
What are (list 4) songs, short stories, poems, articles, and T.V. episodes?
400
This instance is particularly disturbing to Montag and makes him wonder even more about why his society burns books.
What is when the old woman dies with her books?
400
In Act I Scene I the servants talk about their swords and use this literary device.
What is a pun?
400
This dramatic element happens when the audience hears what a character says onstage, but other actors onstage don't hear the comment.
What is an aside?
400
Identify the rhyme scheme in the following lines: "I wandered lonely as a cloud / That floats on high o'er vales and hills / When all at once I saw a crowd, / A host of golden daffodils; / Beside the lake, beneath the trees, / Fluttering and dancing in the breeze" (Wordsworth)
What is ABABCC?
400
This is the style most of Shakespeare's uneducated characters speak in.
What is prose?
500
This is one of the main issues the novel deals with. Bradbury calls it to issue in the dystopian novel he creates.
What is censorship?
500
Identify the literary device in the following lines: "The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars / As daylight doth a lamp" (II.ii.19-20).
What is a simile?
500
This dramatic device sets the theme, conflict, and foreshadows the events of the play and begins Romeo and Juliet.
What is the prologue?
500
Identify the literary device in the following lines: "Ten thousand saw I at a glance, / Tossing their heads in a sprightly dance" (Wordsworth).
What is personification?
500
Ray Bradbury's novel F451 began as a short story called this.
What is "The Pedestrian"?
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