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If only this small creature hadn't been killed, all of modernity wouldn't have suffered in A Sound of Thunder.
What is the butterfly?
The following sentence displays these two literary devices:
Crashing conquistadors, Batman! The boing of the bouncing ball almost knocked me right off my feet!
What are onomatopoeia and alliteration?
This pattern is read stressed, unstressed.
What is trochaic?
This gray-eyed goddess appeals to Zeus on behalf of Odysseus and Telemachus.
Who is Athena?
This well-meaning but curmudgeon-y sister would lock up the linens if it meant they were protected from the curious stranger.
Who is Madame Magloire?
Attention to detail ends up making this artist's painting very different, if only by a leaf.
Who is Niggle?
If you want to describe something without using like or as, you might employ this device.
What is a metaphor?
This meter has four metrical feet.
What is tetrameter?
Despite thinking he is in the hospital, Niggle actually hears these voices discussing his fate.
Who are the angels?
Meaning "true community," this leading lady was servant to Laertes, Odysseus and Telemachus.
Who is Eurykleia?
This gem was the first to be given away by the generous Happy Prince.
What is the ruby on the sword?
When Joyce Kilmer wrote, " They scourged Thy back and smote Thy cheek," in his poem, Prayer of a Soldier in France, he was using this literary device to refer to the Scourging at the Pillar.
What is allusion?
Seemingly Shakespeare's favorite rhythmic pattern and meter, he writes his plays in this sing-song fashion.
What is iambic pentameter?
In order that Odysseus is immune to Circe's piggish pranks, Hermes slips him this magical plant...on the fly, of course.....
What is moly?
If not for the bees, Odysseus would have perished at the sound of these vixen nymphs.
Who are the Sirens?
This fate-filled note told the world that Jean Valjean had been released from prison.
What is the yellow passport?
Shakespeare's famous sonnets used this device to end lines 13 and 14.
What is rhyme?
This rhythmic pattern is marked by an unstressed, stressed pattern.
What is iambic?
Though pretty fond of his sheep, Polyphemus would surely lose the Most-Attached-to-My-Pet Award to this sunny god and his immortal herds.
Who is Helios?
Deeply tied to Odysseus in spirit, Athena visits Penelope in a dream in the form of this kindred woman.
Who is her sister?
In Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince, this character is described as "having no conversation" and called "a coquette."
Who is the reed?
If you believe that it's not what you say but how you say it, you'd better get this right in your writing. In other words, choose wisely......
What is diction?
The Odyssey is written in this meter.
What is dactylic hexameter?
The Bishop's kindness is only a small metaphor for this unconditional, universal and timelessly available gift.
The mercy of God.
Always on the prowl, this hungry man-eater has six heads, three rows of teeth and an appetite for sailors.
Who is the Skylla?