Year 11 Literary Devices Quiz

"She is as in a field of silken tent..." (Robert Frost)

"The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold..." (Lord Byron)

"Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure." (Lord Byron)

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness..."

"...full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;/ Hedge-crickets sing..." (Keats)

"When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions..." (Shakespeare)

" Busy old fool, unruly sun/ Why dost thou thus,/ Through windows, and through curtains call on us?" (John Donne)

"...Not to be here,   Not to be anywhere,And soon; nothing more terrible, nothing more true." (Philip Larkin