The clause “the silence hissed” includes the use of what three
literary devices?
What is personification, oxymoron, and onomatopoeia.
100
The manner in which a writer constructs a sentence and how if affects a reader’s understanding.
What is syntax?
100
Throughout Macbeth, there are images of blood, darkness, disease, violence, and weather. These are all
examples of what technique that gains power through its repetition.
What are motifs?
100
A sentence that contains only one main clause.
What is a simple sentence?
100
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
What is blank verse?
200
“They even love as though they hate” is an example of what?
What is a paradox?
200
A sentence that contains one main clause and at least one dependent clause.
What is a complex sentence?
200
In the short story “Young Goodman Brown,” Goodman’s wife is named “Faith,” and he takes a physical journey into a
dark forest. In leaving her he leaves his religious faith behind and embraces evil. This short story clearly can be read on two levels and is an example of this story genre where characters and events represent abstract ideas.
What is an allegory?
200
A sentence that gives a command.
What is an imperative sentence?
200
The repetition of consonant sounds, following different vowel sounds. (e.g., Pitter patter and stoke luck)
What is consonance?
300
The line “Cannot be ill, cannot be
good” is an example of what?
What is antithesis?
300
An incomplete sentence—containing a subject or predicate only—that is punctuated as if it were a complete sentence.
What is a fragment?
300
The last two lines of a Shakespearean Sonnet that restate or addresses the entire poem is known as this.
What is a couplet?
300
“Shakespeare, the greatest Renaissance
author, is credited with writing 37 plays”
The phrase between the commas equals or extends
the noun or pronoun that precedes it.
This phrase is known as a what?
What is an appositive?
300
Repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds in words close together. (e.g., sweet dreams)
What is assonance?
400
“What the hammer? What the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?”
These lines from William Blake’s “The Tyger” contain these three sound devices.
What are rhyming couplets, anaphora/repetition, and alliteration?
400
A sentence that expresses the main idea at the end, slowing the pace of reading and placing emphasis at the end.
What is a periodic sentence?
400
Julius Caesar’s famous line “Veni, Vidi, Vici” (“I came, I saw, I conquered”) is an example this technique involving syntax and omission.
What is asyndeton?
400
Also known as a loose sentence, this sentence has modifiers after the main statement. Writers use this construction for explaining, listing, and describing.
What is a cumulative sentence?
400
Repetition of initial sound in words close together.
What is alliteration?
500
Milton’s “Sonnet XIX” contains the
Following two lines:
“To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, lest he returning chide.”
The continuation of the thought from the first to second line is known as this structural device
What is enjambment?
500
Placing the extraordinary next to the mundane.
What is juxtaposition?
500
At the end of the tragedy, Othello has a sudden understanding that Iago tricked him, and his wife Desdemona did not cheat on him.
This is an example of what?
What is an epiphany?
500
The repetition of words, phrases, and/or clauses at the beginning of successive lines or sentences.
What is anaphora?
500
A form of poetical meter consisting first of one stressed syllable, followed by one unstressed syllable.