Lit Devices 1
Lit Devices 2
Lit Devices 3
Lit Devices 4
Lit Devices 5
100

FAV - Such a war of white and red within her cheeks is this type of Imagery

What is Visual?

100
SONIA - When Biondello enters announcing "Old news" about Petruchio's impending arrival, Shakespeare is employing this kind of literary device.

What is an Oxymoron?

100

MULINS - Petruchio is using this literary device when he says to his servants: "What dogs are these!?"

What is a metaphor?

100

ZAYON - Petruchio describing the dress "carved like an apple tart" is an example of this kind of Literary Device.

What is a Simile?

100

SANIYAH - Biondello saying: "Forget you? No, sir, I couldn’t forget you, because I’ve never seen you before in my life" is an example of this kind of meter.

What is Prose?

200

AIDAN - Mistaken Identity is the __________ standing in the way for most of the characters in Act 5, Scene 1.

What is an Obstacle?

200

ELI - When is says that Petruchio "kiss’d her lips with such a clamorous smack," Shakespeare is employing this type of literary device.

What is Onomatopoeia?

200
CAIRO - The animal motif is presented about Petruchio taming Kate, likening her to this bird of prey.

What is a falcon?

200

CHRIS - The emotion of Grumio's fear and the tension from the comedy of Petruchio rejecting everything that the Tailor has made creates what kind of lighthearted, fearful, and intense aspect of the Author's Intention?

What is Atmosphere?

300

MYLAH - When Katharina says, "Now must the world point at poor Katharina," what Literary Device is she using?

What is Personification?

300

In Act 3, Scene 2, the lines "That, being mad herself, she's madly mated. / I warrant him, Petruchio is Kated" is an example of this kind of Meter, Rhyme, and Stanza

What is an Iambic Pentameter Rhyming Couplet?

300

ARIANNA - Hortensio's Objective is to stop being a suitor to Bianca (because she likes Lucentio), but this is problematic because his Obstacle is this.

What is "he is still in love with Bianca?"

300

LOGAN - When Petruchio describes their clothes, "We will unto your father's / Even in these honest mean habiliments" it is an example of this kind of Imagery.

What is Visual Imagery?

400

ANDY - When Hortensio says, "You'll leave his lecture when I am in tune?" what Literary Device is he using?

What is a Pun / Double Meaning?

400

MARLEY - When Grumio says, "Be the jacks fair within, the jills fair without," Shakespeare is employing this literary device to refer to the old Jack and Jill poem.

What is an Allusion?

400

ADRIANA - Kate's line “What, he did marry me to famish me?” mirrors her frustration and the tension between characters with the use of this kind of Phonology.

What is Cacophony?

400

QUENTIN - The Theme "Deception for Personal Gain" can be found in either of these two examples

What is Tranio pretending to be Lucentio?

or

What is the Pedant pretending to be Vincentio to fool Baptista?

500

MICAH - This kind of imagery is being used in the line "And marry sweet Bianca with consent"

What is Organic? (or Gustatory)

500

SAMIR - When Curtis talks about "So miry a place," referring to being stuck in the mud, this kind of imagery is being used.

What is Tactile Imagery?

500

CHARLES - When Kate says: "That feed'st me with the very name of meat" she is using this type of Imagery.

What is Gustatory Imagery?

500

JC - The line "so bedazzled with the sun" is an example of this kind of Imagery

What is Visual Imagery?