Figurative Language
¨To sit in solitary silence in a dull, dark dock,
In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock,
What is alliteration?
bright black, truthful lie, sweet sorrow, or virtual reality
What is oxymoron?
In Beowulf, it is mentioned that Grendel is related to Cain.
What is a Biblical allusion?
¨This royal throne, this sceptred isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars...¨
What are anaphora and parallelism?
Buckingham Palace announced today that Harry is not permitted to wear his former military uniform to the Queen´s funeral.
What are metonymy and personification?
Do not tempt the hand of fate.
What is personification?
A presentation addressing world hunger incorporates pictures of emaciated children.
What is pathos?
Shall I compare thee to a summer´s day?
What is a rhetorical question?
¨In his blue gardens, men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.¨
What are imagery, simile, and personification?
¨Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania. Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado.¨
What are anaphora, alliteration, imagery, and personification?
The city is a shining beacon on a hill.
What is metaphor?
saying ¨earthly remains¨ rather than corpse
What is a euphemism?
The Oval Office will announce the decision on the news at eleven.
What is metonymy?
¨War is a part of it; education is a part of it; birth is a part of it; money is a part of it.¨
What are epistrophe and parallelism?
¨Water, water everywhere,
And not a drop to drink.
Water water everywhere,
And how the boards did shrink.¨
What are anaphora, repetition, alliteration, or personification?
¨Twinkle, twinkle, little star...¨
What is assonance?
¨The child is the father of the man.¨
What is a paradox?
¨We find ourselves rich in goods but ragged in spirits.¨
What is antithesis?
¨...it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness,...¨
What are parallelism and antithesis,and anaphora?
¨We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne...¨
What are anaphora, restatement, and parallelism?
¨The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.¨
What is understatement?
The captain commands one hundred sails.
What is synedoche?
An writer who provides facts, statistics, and expert testimony in his argument is building this appeal.
What is logos?
¨What tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!¨
What are alliteration and exclamation?
¨The rainy night had ushered in a misty morning - half frost, half drizzle - and temporary brooks crossed our path, gurgling from the uplands.¨
What are imagery, alliteration, anaphora, personification, and onomatopoeia?