Literary and Poetic Devices

To closely arrange two images with strikingly different characteristics is to...

Oedipus leaving who he thought were his parents, only to end up with his real parents is...

"We found a hound who pound for pound can rebound and astound" is an example of....

Wordplay using homophones or near homophones is called

"His heart drank in her tears..." is an example of

Which of the following is not a cliche

"Not last, but crashing, clucking first, snickers fast across our hearts..." is an example of

A word's denotation is its...

A symbolic narrative, or a representation of an abstract meaning within concrete action is...

"O, Marriage, Marriage, you are what brings us....together..." is an example of

"All hands on deck!" is an example of...

The Wilco song lyric "I don't want to be another captain tied to the mast" is....

"She moved like a snake if a snake had feet" is an example of...

Yet we felt in the fallen timber the light twitter of timer.

When a writer relies on the implications and associations of a word, he/she relies on...

"That night after the ceremony, they really became husband and wife..." is an example of

Hyperbole is...