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AP Lit review of common literary devices
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1
When a complete sentence begins and ends within one line of poetry, it is called ...
an end-stopped line
caesura
iambic pentameter
enjambment
2
These lines offer an example of which device? "We real cool. We/Left school. We/Lurk late [..]"
enjambment
similie
imagery
personification
3
In
Good Country People
, Hulga's leg is most likely a ...
metaphor
symbol
allusion
hyperbole
4
What device was Frost using by writing a one-word sentence? "So."
hyperbole
syntax
He actually made a mistake!
metaphor
5
"The wild garden behind the house contained a central apple-tree and a few straggling bushes.."
alliteration
assonance
allusion
metaphor
6
True of False? This is an example of imagery: "She saw the beautiful bird."
False
True
7
How amazing is this quote?
Not at all amazing.
Totally amazing!
8
True or False? This line contains a caesura: "banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him."
False
True
9
What device is illustrated by this image?
juxtaposition
imagery
metaphor
diction
10
Choosing to write "spilling" instead of "gushed" is an example of...
diction
caesura
allusion
imagery
11
What device? "Her forward expression was steady and driving like the advance of a heavy truck."
allusion
figurative language
juxtaposition
symbolism
12
What device can you see here? "Justice is blind."
allusion
oxymoron
personification
imagery
13
What device is at work here? "Sad is the man..."
allusion
figurative language
syntax
diction
14
"Sweet-scented stuff" is an example of...
onomatopoeia
inverted syntax (Yoda-speak)
rhyme
alliteration
15
Imagery? Out of the last avalanche of/Light above pines and the guttural gorge,/The hawk comes.
True
False
