Figurative Language
The device in the following poetic excerpt:
"This troubled woman/ Bowed by / Weariness and pain / Like an / Autumn flower / In the frozen rain"
What is a simile?
The sound device in the following quotation:
"For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow"
What is alliteration?
The meter of the following line by Antony: "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;"
What is iambic pentameter?
The 3 types of irony.
What are dramatic, verbal, and situational?
What syntactic device is best represented here:
"Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them"
What is a balanced sentence?
An rhymed poem written in iambic pentameter.
What is blank verse?
The device in the following line from Cassius: "He [Julius Caesar] doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus, and we petty men walk under his...huge legs."
What is hyperbole?
The following poem uses multiple examples of this literary device.
"...Where bashful flowers blow, And blushing birds go down to drink, And shadows tremble so?"
What sound device is MOST used in this quote?
"And the startled little waves that leap
In fiery ringlets from their sleep,"
What is consonance?
What is: abab cdcd efef gg?
The device in the following quote by Caesar: "Cowards die many times before their deaths."
What is a paradox?
The device used in the following poetic excerpt:
"Day / Became a bright ball of light / For us to play with, / Sunset / A yellow curtain, / Night / A velvet screen."
What is a metaphor?
This poetic excerpt includes two syntactic devices:
"Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of hell"
(Get an out of turn shot at a 100 pt. question by also saying which literary device is present here!)
Parallel structure, anaphora
personification
A Shakepearean Sonnet is made up of a couplet following three...
What is a quatrain?
This is an example: We know that Cassius faked the letters that Lucius finds, but Brutus thinks they are real.
What is dramatic irony?
The poetic device in the following poetic excerpt:
"Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;"
What is an apostrophe?
Which sound device is MOST present in the following poetic passage:
"...like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;"
What is assonance?
The following poem is an example of this poem sub-genre:
When I consider how my light is spent,/
Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,/
And that one Talent which is death to hide/
Lodged with me useless, though my Soul more bent/
To serve therewith my Maker, and present/
My true account, lest he returning chide;/
“Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?”/
I fondly ask. But patience, to prevent/
That murmur, soon replies, “God doth not need/
Either man’s work or his own gifts; who best/
Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state/
Is Kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed/
And post o’er Land and Ocean without rest:/
They also serve who only stand and wait.”
Petrarchan Sonnet
The syntactic device in the following line from Brutus: "Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more."
What is antithesis?