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Coming to Terms with Literary Terms
Coming to Terms with Literary Terms
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"The earth that's nature's mother is her tomb; What is her burying grave, that is her womb."
meiosis
allusion
antithesis
oxymoron
2
A story written to be performed by actors with an audience is called a:
drama
tragedy
contest
movie
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"Me they shall feel while I am able to stand, and 'tis known I am a pretty piece of flesh."
oxymoron
blank verse
double entendre
monologue
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Blank verse is characterized by:
a sonnet with no couple
nonsensical poetry
unmetered, rhyming verse
unrhymed iambic pentameter
5
"Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, and vice sometime by action dignified."
antithesis
metaphor
pun
blank verse
6
This image is an example of which literary device?
meiosis
symbolism
simile
pun
7
Romeo and Juliet is written in:
Old English
Middle English
Modern English
Yiddish
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"These violent delights have violent ends...like fire and powder, which as they kiss, consume."
mitosis
allusion
simile
meiosis
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Thou wilt quarrel w/ a man for cracking nuts having no reason but because thou hast hazel eyes
double entendre
allusion
pun
symbolism
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"You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings and soar with them above a common bound."
mitosis
iamb
symbolism
allusion
11
"It is the east, and Juliet is the sun" is an example of which literary term?
metaphor
simile
aside
metonymy
12
"Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous and it pricks like thorn."
foil
personification
metaphor
couplet
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In drama, a
tragedy
is a play in which:
Everyone dies
a puppy gets hit by a car
The main character suffers a downfall
There is much suffering
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"But passion lends them power, time means, to meet/Temp'ring extremities with extreme sweet"
a couplet
blank verse
a pun
a sonnet
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"Is the law of our side if I say ay?" is an example of:
soliloquy
aside
monologue
tomfoolery
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a mockingbird
double entendre
symbolism
oxymoron
sonnet
17
ABABCDCDEFEFGG is the rhyme scheme of which poetic form?
blank verse
double entendre
iambic pentameter
sonnet
18
The main difference between a monologue (mono) and a soliloquy (solil) is:
a mono is said alone; a solil is spoken to other characters
a mono is spoken to other characters; a solil is said alone
a solil is in iambic pentameter; a mono is not
A mother speaks in a mono, and a son speaks in a solil
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A poetic meter in which each line has 5 metric units is called:
didactic hexameter
monosodium glutamate
iambic pentameter
iambic tetrameter
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The following characters are foils of one another:
Tybalt & Lord Capulet
Benvolio & Tybalt
Potpan & Anthony
The Friar & Lord Capulet