AP Lit Devices Review 1

"Our defense was valiant, holding the other team to a mere 8 touchdowns in the first quarter"

"He clasps the crag with crooked hands, / Close to the sun in lonely hands."

"He's no fool!"

"There is no world without Verona walls, but purgatory, torture, hell itself."

"We lurk late, / We strike straight"

"Cannibalism is frowned upon in most societies." -- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

"Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, / Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed..."

"Thou still unravished bride of quietness, / Thou foster child of silence and slow time."

"This accident is not unlike my dream. Belief of it oppresses me already."

The literal dictionary definition of a word

"Hope is a thing with feathers / which perches on my soul / and sings a tune without the words

Hitting that telephone pole certainly didn't do her car any favors.

"Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood / For nothing now can come to any good"

"A hand that can be clasped no more, / Behold me, for I cannot sleep"

"She kept the purse in a jail of a bag which hung upon her arm by a heavy chain."

"This bud of love by summer's ripening breath / May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet"

"And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain / Thrilled me--filled me..."

"I weep like a child for the past."

The emotional association attached to the meaning of a word

Which of the following words has the most POSITIVE connotation?