Literary Devices - AP Lang

Question 1

“When well-appareled April on the heel / Of limping winter treads.” - Shakespeare, R and J

Accepted Answer

Metaphor, Allusion, Personification

Question 2

“. . . to follow her thought was like following a voice which speaks too quickly . . .” - Woolf

Accepted Answer

Metaphor, Oxymoron, Simile

Question 3

"Shall I compare thee to a Summer's Day? Thou art more lovely and more Temperate."

Accepted Answer

Simile, Metaphor, Apostrophe

Question 4

“The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew..." -Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

Accepted Answer

Metaphor, Personification, Alliteration

Question 5

“I had to wait in the station for ten days - an eternity.” - Conrad, Heart of Darkness

Accepted Answer

Syneasthesia, Anaphora, Hyperbole

Question 6

"“Back to the region where the sun is silent.” - Dante, Inferno

Accepted Answer

Metaphor, Hyperbole, Synaesthesia

Question 7

“O brawling love! O loving hate! ... O heavy lightness! Serious vanity!" -Shakespeare

Accepted Answer

Metaphor, Synecdoche, Oxymoron

Question 8

“She sat there paler and whiter than anyone in the vast ocean of anxious faces about her.”

Accepted Answer

Synecdoche, Personification, Metonymy

Question 9

How the chosen words are used to form a sentence

Accepted Answer

Syntax, Parallelism, Diction

Question 10

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." - Dicken, A Tale of Two Cities

Accepted Answer

Anaphora, Apotrophe, Antithesis

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