Literary Devices

Question 1

"The sword wasn't useless to the warrior."

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Litote

Question 2

Flying saucers are just an optical conclusion.

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Malaprop

Question 3

“It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.”

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Chiasmus

Question 4

"The Flea" by John Donne compares a flea to marriage.

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Conceit

Question 5

"The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew."

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Alliteration

Question 6

When Shakespeare includes a mechanical watch in his play Julius Caesar, set in 44 B.C.

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Anachronism

Question 7

"It had been found necessary to make a readjustment of rations.”

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Euphemism

Question 8

"Will all Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?"

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Hyperbole

Question 9

Statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense, yet perhaps is true.

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Paradox

Question 10

Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

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Aphorism

Question 11

Chug, chug. Puff, puff. Ding-dong. The little train rumbled over the tracks.

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Onomatopoeia

Question 12

In poetry, a pause in the middle of a line.

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Caesura

Question 13

Dwight's reference to Star Wars.

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Allusion

Question 14

"I drink to the general joy of the whole table."

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Metonymy

Question 15

“Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears.”

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Synecdoche

Question 16

"I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied."

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Polysyndeton

Question 17

"She opened her door and her heart to the orphan."

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Zeugma

Question 18

In poetry, the running over of a phrase over several lines.

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Enjambment

Question 19

"Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer."

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Anastrophe

Question 20

“Poetry is old, ancient, goes back far...So old it is that no man knows...”

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Assonance

Question 21

He is easy on the eyes, but hard on the heart.

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Antithesis

Question 22

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

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Parallelism

Question 23

Skittles: Taste the Rainbow.

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Synaesthesia

Question 24

“Is this a dagger which I see before me...Come, let me clutch thee!"

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Apostrophe

Question 25

"He said he was trying to get Miss Maudie's goat."

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Idiom

Literary Devices

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Literary Devices

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