Literary Devices Jeopardy

Passages

100

What literary device is present here:

"

 look like the innocent flower,

" 

Simile 

200

What literary device is being used in this passage:

"What thou art promised: yet do I fear thy nature; 

It is too full o' the milk of human kindness"

Metaphor

300

What literary device is present in this passage:

"

pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, 

....

Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, 

Imagery (I will also accept allusion) 

400

What literary device is being used here: 

"Come, you spirits 

That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, 

And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full 

Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood;"

Hyperbole 

500

What literary device aside from simile is used here: 

"

Was the hope drunk 

Wherein you dress'd yourself? hath it slept since? 

And wakes it now, to look so green and pale 

At what it did so freely?

"

Personification

Sonnets

100

What literary device is being used in this section of Sonnet 130:

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;

Simile

200

What literary device is being highlighted in the  bolded lines from Sonnet 130:

And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.

Juxtaposition 

300

What device is being used in this section of Sonnet 116, particularly when referring to 'his': 

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Personification

400

What literary device is being used in this section of Sonnet 18

But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;

Metaphor

500

What literary device is being used in these final two lines in Sonnet 18 (you do not need to know this for your test). 

     So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
     So long lives this and this gives life to thee.

Anaphora

(will not be on your test, but good to know) 

Define the Device

100

Define a simile 

A comparison using "like" or "as" 

200

Define repetition within a literary or rhetorical context 

Repetition is a literary and rhetorical device where sounds, words, phrases, or lines are intentionally used multiple times within a text, speech, or poem to create emphasis, rhythm, or emotional effect 

300

Define "symbolism" within a literary context 

Symbolism is a literary device where writers use objects, characters, creatures, colors, or actions to represent abstract ideas beyond their literal meaning. By imbuing concrete items with deeper, often recurring, thematic significance

400

Define "metaphor" 

a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

500

Define "verbal irony" 

When a speaker or narrator says one thing but means the opposite, often used for sarcasm.

Literary Elements

100

_____ often describes the sequence of events throughout a story

Plot

200

True or False: The following is an example of a theme from Frankenstein...

"Science" 

False 

Extra 100 points to anyone who can turn this topic, "Science," into an actual theme. 

300

Mary Shelley uses rainy scenes to ellicit a particular ____ from the reader.

Mood 

400

Inverness Castle is an example of ______ 

Setting 

500

By using dramatic depictions of battle, Shakespeare sets a particular ____ at the start of Macbeth 

Tone