Building Blox and Rhythms
What lit. device is represented by the all-caps words below?
I stair directly at the sun but never in the MIRROR
It must be exhausting always rooting for the ANTI-HERO
slant/half/near rhyme
In what year did Mr. Riess take the AP Lang exam?
2008
Anaphora
In Ada Limon's "What It Looks Like and the Words We Use," which word comes after "woodpecker"?
flurry
"Last Christmas, I gave you my HEART"
synecdoche
the repetition of consonant sounds (Sally laughed illiterately in hell)
consonance
a common phrase that makes no literal sense, whose meaning derives from custom (to go to hell in a handbasket)
idiom
Besides slant rhyme, which literary device is a hallmark of Emily Dickinson's writing?
caesura
onomatopoeia
a reoccurring element in a poem
motif
syndeton
He was hungry as an ox (other than a simile)
hyperbole
when a whole line rhymes with another whole line
holorime
a deliberate form of understatement using a negative (the winter's NOT my favorite)
litotes
an expression substituted for one considered too harsh or taboo (I didn't get fired, I got let go)
euphemism
zeugma
"Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country"
antimetabole
Name the lit. device represented by the words in ALL CAPS:
"Eat BRUNCH at the MOTEL so you're not HANGRY!"
Portmanteau
the inversion of natural word order- how Yoda speaks (Writing this question, I am)
hyperbaton
"when the going gets tough, the tough get going"
chiasmus