Figurative Language Review Game

Question 1

Which of the following figurative devices are used in "The Guitarist Tunes Up?"

Accepted Answer

Simile and metaphor

Question 2

What is "The Hound" primarily exploring in terms of figurative devices?

Accepted Answer

Extended metaphor

Question 3

What does the guitarist say he is not like in "The Guitarist Tunes Up?"

Accepted Answer

a lordly conquerer

Question 4

What is a major figurative device explored in "Mind?"

Accepted Answer

Extended simile

Question 5

What is the hound a representation of in "The Hound?"

Accepted Answer

Life

Question 6

What is the primary literary device in "Western Wind?"

Accepted Answer

Apostrophe

Question 7

What does the poem "Scholars" discuss as a whole?

Accepted Answer

Students you find in a typical classroom

Question 8

Does the mind have no need to "falter or explore" in "Mind?"

Accepted Answer

No. It's okay to make mistakes when your thinking

Question 9

" Contriving by a kind of senseless wit/ Not to conclude against a wall of stone" means...

Accepted Answer

Trying not to hit the end of your thinking

Question 10

Why is Safe personified and explored with three lines in this poem?

Accepted Answer

Safe is an underestimated student

Question 11

What is the graceful error in "Mind?"

Accepted Answer

The extended simile saying the mind is perfectly like a bat

Question 12

What is the guitar compared to in "The Guitarist Tunes Up?"

Accepted Answer

A woman

Question 13

Which of the following themes are not correct in "The Guitarist Tunes Up?"

Accepted Answer

Life is hopeless

Question 14

What is the "cave" in the poem "Mind?"

Accepted Answer

The poem

Question 15

What does equivocal mean?

Accepted Answer

Open to more than one interpretation

Question 16

What kind of student is the heart in "Scholars?"

Accepted Answer

A student who doesn't care about the rules

Question 17

What kind of student does the safe personification represent in "Scholars?"

Accepted Answer

A shy student

Question 18

What is the primary literary device used in "Scholars?"

Accepted Answer

Personfication

Question 19

Which of the following themes from "The Hound" are valid?

Accepted Answer

Life is open to interpetation

Question 20

What kind of students are represented in the first stanza of "Scholars?"

Accepted Answer

Students who tend to succeed in class

Question 21

Which of the following themes is not a valid interpretation of "Scholars?"

Accepted Answer

One should not strive to be a safe or heart-filled student

Question 22

"What slight essential things she had to say/ Before they started, he and she, to play"

Accepted Answer

Personification

Questions 22