Literary Devices
The Odyssey
Romeo and Juliet
Writing and MLA
Figurative Language
100

“Striped swimsuit, stilettos, sunglasses and gold hoop earrings.” What device is being used here?

What is alliteration?

100

“Odysseus, raider of cities, took your eye: Laertes’ son, whose home’s on Ithaca!”

What is an epithet?

100

“The more [love] I give to thee, / The more I have, for both are infinite.”

What is a paradox?

100

Which point of view should a TDW be written in?

What is third-person?

100

“The Bells” by Edgar Allen Poe uses “clang, clash, and roar.”  

What is onomatopoeia?

200

“I was quaking from head to foot, and could have hung my hat on my eyes, they stuck out so far.”

What is hyperbole?

200

“So effortlessly Odysseus in one motion strung the bow...”

What is an epic simile?

200

“Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical!”

What is an oxymoron?

200

What’s the correct parenthetical citation for a quote from page 212 by Collins?

What is (Collins 212)?

200

“I lie down by the side” contains repeated vowel sounds.

What is assonance?

300

“We shared Justin Bieber songs and Twilight movies, the best face-lightening creams.”

What is allusion?

300

“Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story...”

What is an invocation?

300

“I will be civil with the maids. I will cut off their heads.”

What is verbal irony?

300

Indian Camp by Ernest Hemingway, Which item is formatted incorrectly?

What is the title should be in quotation marks?

300

“Your courage was a small coal you kept swallowing.”

What is a direct metaphor?

400

“Ego keeps you from passing the ball... Ego makes you think... Ego is the tempting voice...”

What is repetition?

400

“How could you journey to the western gloom swifter afoot than I?”

What is an apostrophe?

400

“Ah, dear Juliet... Shall I believe that unsubstantial death is amorous?”

What is dramatic irony?

400

Which option best defines a credible source?

What is a source written by an expert and free of errors or bias?

400

“I want them to waterski / across the surface of a poem...”

What is an indirect metaphor?

500

“He likes you. Sometimes. But he loves me... like pushing a button to turn her heart on. Or off.”

What is simile?

500

Athena disguises Odysseus and sends him to Eumaeus, his faithful swineherd.

What is an archetype?

500

“Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast. / Would I were sleep and peace...”

What is end rhyme?

500

What is the purpose of an annotated bibliography?

What is to add descriptive and evaluative comments assessing the cited works?

500

a line of verse composed of ten syllables arranged in five metrical feet

What is iambic pentameter?

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