T4 Literary Terms

Question 1

Identify the literary feature: "enhanced interrogation" OR "a ladies unmetionables"

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euphemism

Question 2

Identify the literary feature: "The Wicked Witch of the West went her own way".

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Alliteration

Question 3

Identify the Literary feature: "Dead things show you what you too will be one day".

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symbol

Question 4

What is the metre of the following line: "So long lives this, and this gives life to thee."

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Iambic pentametre

Question 5

What are these examples of?: as soft as concrete, as clear as mud, as pleasant as a going to the dentist

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Irony

Question 6

What rhyme is in the following lines: "Let the Irish vessel lie, / Emptied of its poetry"

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eye rhyme

Question 7

Identify the literary feature: "I wandered lonely as a cloud".

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Simile

Question 8

Identify the literary feature: "Quiet things were too loud and loud things couldn&#x27;t be heard".

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paradox

Question 9

What literary feature: "All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players;"

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metaphor

Question 10

"Here once the embattled farmers stood and fired the shot heard round the world."

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hyperbole

Question 11

What do we call the distribution of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem

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Metre

Question 12

Identify the literary feature: "O heavy lightness! Serious vanity!"

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oxymoron

Question 13

Identify the literary feature: "The cold poked me awake".

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Personification

Question 14

What is enjambment?

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When lines don't end on natural pauses

Question 15

Identify the literary feature: "the sofa sagged under me and ssssssssed".

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onomatopoeia

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