Figurative Language 1
Figurative Language 2
Sound Effects
Form
Miscellaneous
100
What is this an example of: The bitter cartographer, his compass aiming / at that barely-charted land
What is imagery
100
What is this an example of: So I turn back, and, as to a waiting choir, preach
What is simile
100
What is this an example of: I sit and watch the weather-weary beach
What is alliteration
100
What type of rhyme is used here: Why is the Kara Sea so-called? / What dejected explorer, his mind / uncluttered by reach, stood enthralled / on that icy shore, an eternity aligned / beyond his gaze to indeterminate north / and the distance of a silent empire behind?
What is end rhyme
100
What type of a rhyme is used here: "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary"
What is internal rhyme
200
What is this an example of: I sit and watch the weather-weary beach / throwing sand smooth stones into the waiting tide. / Little dreams of things forever out of reach. /
What is metaphor
200
What is this an example of: "Show me a piano falling down a mineshaft and I'll show you A-flat minor"
What is a pun
200
What is this an example of: "full of sadnesses too great in number, too infinite to teach"
What is consonance
200
What two types of rhyme are used here: Or did some ashen bureaucrat, his birth / a stamp and shackle to the Czar, / in fitful deference to his master’s mirth, / nominate some callow prince’s daughter;
What is end rhyme and slant rhyme
200
What is the mood of this passage: His helpless cry begs for what is deserved to everyone. Each / his tones resound around while through gale he glides / hoping forever to avoid that weather-weary beach
Escaping from heartbreak or pain
300
What is this an example of: A lone gull serenades, curses his soulless breach
What is personification
300
What is this an example of: I sit and watch the weather-weary beach / throwing sand smooth stones into the waiting tide.
What is imagery
300
What is this an example of: "I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and restless"
What is assonance
300
What type of verse is this: Ramses shuffles a proud and long-haired Gaze / into a gilded Mirror standing naked and ashamed / before the Mighty newly penitent King.
What is free verse
300
What is the tone of this passage: Or did some ashen bureaucrat, his birth / a stamp and shackle to the Czar, / in fitful deference to his master’s mirth, / nominate some callow prince’s daughter; /
Distaste for authority
400
What are these examples of: "War is peace." "Freedom is slavery." "Ignorance is strength."
What are paradoxes
400
What is this an example of: His eyes / regally Laugh from his god-kissed face
What is idiom
400
What two types of sounds are found in this passage: "And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain"
What are assonance and consonance
400
What type of verse is this: full of sadnesses too great in number, too infinite to teach, / and the shells of hearts, impassionate, unkind / and dreams of things forever out of reach. /
What is traditional verse
400
What is this an example of: "it's going to take light years for us to get through this"
What is hyperbole
500
What is this an example of: He touches the Mirror and shifts its stance to catch / Ra's glinting smile, the City below. How Mighty / do his Pillars untoppled guard the resenting Desert, / his newly benevolent Face strong-shouldered / on Stone four stories high! Ramses closes his eyes / against the Crimson smile of Ra, Knowing it also / shines happily on the unflooded Plains; he / dreams himself beside the flowing Water, Reeds / shivering in the Heat, Osiris’ silent pull / when he rests his Hand in the River.
What is allegory
500
What two things is this passage an example of: "Crows" They go down to the corner pub, full of / intentions and diatribes and unspoken anxiety / for the rapture, but relatively silent. They / are young and in the third person for now. / The streets are filthy, but they no longer care.
What is personification and satire
500
What two things is this quote an example of: "My days have crackled and gone up in smoke"
What are onomatopoeia and metaphor
500
Correctly scan this line: of life and hearts ripped straight out from the side
The line is in iambics
500
What is this an example of (hint: has nothing to do with word sounds): Tethys and Oceanus murmur in their secret speech / articulating a language in which only they confide. / As I sit and watch the weather-weary beach /
What is allusion
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