Watching for Dolphins
Stared like a saint is an example of which device?
Simile
The sea eats the land at home
'With lessened load' is an example of what?
Alliteration
The loathsome sloth looped the algae 'round his claws.
Assonance
To be or not to be is part of which Shakespearean play?
Hamlet
Piraeus is where in the world?
Greece
'lap-lapping' is an example of what?
Onomatopoeia
What is the first and last name of the poet?
Robert Bridges
A cool veil of sweat secreted from her skin as her nerves prickled with a hot rage.
Tactile Imagery
The serpent and apple are an allusion to which story?
Adam and Eve
What do cymbals, gongs and drums all have in common?
They are all ceremonial instruments, used to announce something (war, ceremony, beginning etc)
'It came one day at the dead of night.' is an example of what?
oxymoron / juxtaposition
crystal manna is an example of what?
metaphor, also biblical allusion
What we use to discuss the point at which a line of poetry breaks
Enjambment
If someone said to 'Frankenstein something,' what does it mean?
They created something by combining various pieces of different things.
Domed like satyrs is an example of what, other than simile?
The angry water of the cruel sea is an example of which two devices?
Direct characterization and personification
The eye marveled is an example of what?
Synecdoche
This is what you would use to discuss a raising or lowering of the volume in a poem
Pitch
If someone is wearing a 'Scarlet Letter,' what does that mean?
They are public ally being shamed for something, as the protagonist of Hawthorne's 'The Scarlet Letter' is shamed for adultery by being forced to wear a scarlet A on her clothing.
'Screeching from the sky...sat in a silent school'
'flat calm...or a sea the sun and the wind between them raised'
These are both examples of what?
Juxtaposition
Why does the sea take away all of the materials the village people use for cooking?
Cruelty of taking away means of sustenance; irony that the sea 'eats' and lives off of what will imply death and starvation of the people
'Their tongues with tasting, their hands with snowballing' is an example of what?
Parallelism
What are the two devices used in the following lines?
'Although he was sometimes forgetful, Adrian was a loving and caring husband.'
If someone describes says, 'This story is going to be Homeric,' what do they typically mean?
It will be very long and perhaps epic/dramatic. Homer is the poet who is believed to have written The Odyssey and The Iliad.