Figurative Language
Sound Devices
Time to Run a Meter
and Other Poetry
What Literary Term am I?
Shakespeare
100
These are example of what? beautiful disaster, common sense, military intelligence
What is oxymoron?
100
This is an example of what? It wasn't hard to understand, As she reached out her hand.
What is rhyme?
100
What is the rhythm and meter in this line? "In such an honor named. What's more to do,"
What is iambic pentameter?
100
What is the literary device being used in the following line? As he starts the fatal battle, MacBeth states that he would rather die fighting then run and hide to be labelled a coward.
What is denouement?
100
Who said the following lines? "To ben or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them? - to die - to sleep,"
Who is Hamlet?
200
This is an example of what? The student was not allowed to walk across the stage at graduation due to prior hardships in highschool.
What is euphemism?
200
This is an example of what? When she waded in the pool, she could hear the trickle of the waterfall.
What is onomatopoeia?
200
What is the meter in this line? When I walked down the street, I saw him look at me.
What is hexameter?
200
What type of narration is being used in the following line? She looked at me as I walked into the room. I had wanted to get the nerve to talk to her but when she glared at me, I lost all courage to do anything. It wasn't all to important but it still frustrated me that I let a ten year old control my actions.
What is first-person narrative?
200
What play is the following line from? "If music be the food of love, play on."
What is Twelfth Night?
300
This is an example of what? The Middle English teacher decided to look up a word's definition in the modern Webster dictionary.
What is anachronism?
300
This is an example of what? As she saw Sandra sway simultaneously, she hoped she would be alright.
What is alliteration?
300
What is the rhythm and meter in this line? And their hearts but once heaved, and forever grew still.
What is anapestic tetrameter?
300
What is the following line an example of? The horse is a very stable animal.
What is pun?
300
What play is about a woman named Kate who is wild and moody. She meets Pertruchio, who, after marrying her, becomes even more wild and crazy than his spouse. Kate, by the end of the play, reforms and urges woman to submit to their husbands.
What is the Taming of the Shrew?
400
This is an example of what? As she walked along the beaten path, the tree's hand reached out and grabbed her by the shirt.
What is personification?
400
This is an example of what? She looked out the window and saw a flock of black-checkered ducks fly by her.
What is consonance?
400
What is the meter in this line? "Once upon a midniht dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary."
What is octameter?
400
What is type of sentence is the following line? Deesprite the many flaws he exemplified, she still loved him and wanted to be with him.
What is periodic sentence?
400
What play is this quote from? "We are such stuff/As dreams are made of."
What is the Tempest?
500
This is an example of what? As she glared at him, her eyes seemed to tear into his soul and paralyze him.
What is allusion?
500
This is an example of what? The old, mean soul had a difficult role.
What is assonance?
500
What is the meter in this line? Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater
What is trochaic?
500
What type of sentence is the following line? He loved reading, although he had to fight for the time to read. (DAILY DOUBLE)
What is loose sentence?
500
Other than "Hamlet," "MacBeth," "King Lear," and "Romeo and Juliet," name three poems by William Shakespeare.
What is "Antony and Cleopatra," "As You Like It," "Julius Caesar," "The Merchant of Venice," "A Midsummer Nght's Dream," "Othello," "The Taming of the Shrew," "The Tempest," and "Twelfth Night."
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