Literary Devices

Question 0

Pun

Answer 0

A play on words that have totally different meanings but similar or even identical sounds

Question 1

Allusion

Answer 1

A reference to events or characters from history, myth, religion literature, pop culture, etc.

Question 2

Oxymoron

Answer 2

A linking of contradictory terms

Question 3

Hyberbole

Answer 3

A deliberate exaggeration for effect, or to show intensity of feeling

Question 4

Simile

Answer 4

A direct (stated) comparison using the words as, like, than

Question 5

Metaphor

Answer 5

An indirect (implied) comparison

Question 6

Personification

Answer 6

A type of metaphor

Question 7

The types of metaphor or personification

Answer 7

1) attributing human or personal qualities to inanimate things or ideas;
2) using a person or character to represent an abstract quality, thing, or idea

Question 8

Dramatic irony

Answer 8

A situation in which the audience, and one or more characters, knows something that the character on stage doesn’t know

Question 9

Foreshadowing

Answer 9

Technique (for example,a remark, an event,or an image) used the warn, suggest, or indicate that the particular event will happen at a later point in the literary work.

Question 10

Example: references to Greek mythology figured: Adonis, Cytherea, Io, Daphne, Appolo

Answer 10

Allusion

Question 11

Worderful froward

Answer 11

Oxymoron

Question 12

I perish tranio if I achieve not this young modest girl

Answer 12

Hyberbole

Question 13

I love her 10 times more than e’er I did

Answer 13

Hyperbole

Question 14

Have I not heard the sea, puffed up with winds, rage like an angry boar chafed with sweat?

Answer 14

Simile

Question 15

Now I play a merchant’s part and venture madly on a desperate mart (Baptista is comparing himself to a merchant taking a gamble to dispose of undesirable goods (Katherine)

Answer 15

Metaphor

Question 16

What happy gale blows you to Padua here from old Verona? (A happy wind). (A happy wind)

Answer 16

Personification

Question 17

Any man is so very a fool to be married to hell (hell personifies Katherine and her undesirable personality traits

Answer 17

Personification

Question 18

Am I a lord,and have I such a lady? Or do I dream? Or have I dreamed till now? (Christopher sly is becoming convinced that he is in facts lord)

Answer 18

Dramatic irony

Question 19

I’ll plead for you as for my patron, stand you so assured, as firmly as yourself were still in place (Lucentio (as Cambio)is assuring Gremio that will court Bianca on Gremio’s behalf

Answer 19

Dramatic irony

Question 20

What, this gentleman will out-talk us all!! (Gremio is worried that Tranio (as lucentio) will win Baptista over with his fancy speeches and convince him to allow Lucentio to marry Bianca.)

Answer 20

Foreshadowing