Figurative Language and Literary Devices

Question 1

Two consecutive lines in a poem that rhyme.

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couplet

Question 2

The repetition of consonant sounds, usually at the beginnings of words, as in tongue twisters

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alliteration

Question 3

When what happens in the action of the story is unexpected...

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situational irony

Question 4

Sally sells sea shells by the seashore...

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Alliteration

Question 5

pathos

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calamity; a painful destructive act

Question 6

"And therefore think him [Caesar] as a serpent's egg, is a

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simile

Question 7

peripeteia

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reversal; from good to bad

Question 8

An example of when something spoken is unexpected would be...?

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The student said it's as clear as mud.

Question 9

Giving non-humans or abstract ideas, human qualities

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personification

Question 10

Adjective and noun describing a person or character

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Epithet

Question 11

When a character talks to himself aloud alone on stage it is a ...

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soliloquy, monologue

Question 12

What two words are used in similes?

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like/as

Question 13

A reference to a famous person, place, event or other work of literature.

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allusion

Question 14

Extreme exaggeration usually for humorous effect.

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hyperbole

Question 15

Words that imitate sounds.

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onomatopoeia

Question 16

Peripeteia occurs in the _________ when emotion is at its highest

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climax

Question 17

Greg's father was a rock through the entire soccer game...

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Metaphor

Question 18

Personification example?

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The sun smiles down on us

Question 19

"[Caesar] doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men Walk under his huge legs"

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ALL are correct

Question 20

A direct comparison between unlike things with similar qualities, NOT using "like" or "as".

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metaphor

Question 21

What is "knowing again" or changing from ignorance to awareness

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anagnorisis

Question 22

An play on words intended for a funny effect [comic relief in Shakespeare's plays]

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Pun

Question 23

A group of lines together in a poem, like sentences in a paragraph.

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stanza

Question 24

The audience feels pity and fear and purges their emotions during

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catharsis

Question 25

Something that has meaning in itself but also represents something else

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symbol

Question 26

Readers can picture Caesar's statue spouting blood and the Romans bathing their hands in it, so it is

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imagery

Question 27

Simile example?

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He is tough as nails

Question 28

Caesar's statue spouting blood in Calpurnia's dream is a

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symbol

Question 29

Antony uses ______________ when he repeats, "But Brutus says he was ambitious, and Brutus is an honorable man"?

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verbal irony

Question 30

a calamity or painful destructive act

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pathos

Question 31

Which type of irony is when the audeince knows something the characters don't?

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Dramatic

Question 32

" I know [Caesar] would not be a wolf / But that he sees the Romans are but sheep" is an example of

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metaphor

Question 33

Words and phrases that appeal to the reader's senses.

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imagery

Question 34

Parallelism is when words or phrases are similar in sentence structure.

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True

Question 35

Which literary technique is used when Brutus says: "Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more"

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parallelism

Question 36

When Calpurnia shares her dream about Caesar's statue spouting blood it is?

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foreshadowing

Question 37

The comparison of two unlike things with similar qualities using "like" or "as"

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simile

Question 38

When two characters contrast one another in some way it is

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foil

Question 39

When there are hints about what will happen later in the story.

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foreshadowing

Question 40

Main idea or an underlying message of a literary work

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Theme

Question 41

When we know that Caesar will be murdered on March 15th but Caesar and Antony do not know, it is

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dramatic irony

Question 42

Euphemism is a(n) ..... of harsh words

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replacement

Question 43

hamartia

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missing the mark; tragic flaw

Question 44

When Antony gives three examples of the good Caesar did and then asks the crowd if that seems ambitious, he uses

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rhetorical questions

Question 45

Brutus's tragic flaw, or hamartia, "missing the mark"

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misplaced trust

Question 46

Repetition of vowel sounds in lines of poetry.

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assonance

Question 47

Antony repeats: "Brutus is an honorable man." This is NOT

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imagery

Question 48

When a story begins in the middle of the action. . .

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in medias res

Question 49

catharsis

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pity and fear; purging of emotions

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anagnorisis

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knowing again or changing from ignorance to awareness

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