Literary Devices (Form and Content) Flashcards
What do you call a meter with seven feet?
- Dimeter
- Pentameter
- Heptameter
- Hexameter
- Heptameter
Identify the following figure of speech: Garry grumpily gathered the garbage.
Alliteration
Identify the literary device indicated with capital letters in the followed sentence.
“A chafing savage, down the decenT streeT”
Consonance
Identify the figure of speech.
Her heart is gold.
Metaphor
Identify the figure of speech.
I will drink a glass.
Synecdoche
My grandma passed away last year.
Euphemism
Identify the literary device marked in capital letters in the followed sentence.
“A chafing savage, down the decenT streeT”
Consonance
Identify the figure of speech.
Falling for him made me fly
Paradox
Falling for him made me fly
Paradox
Identify the figure of speech:
If I am not home by midnight, my car might turn into a pumpkin.
Allusion
Identify the literary device in the followed sentence.
“A chafing savage, down the decent street”
Consonance
“Then it opened its mouth like it wanted to speak.” What is the foot and meter here?
Anapestic Tetrameter
What are the foot and the meter of the word “Farewell” ?
Iambic monometer
How do you call the repetition of similar vowel sounds, usually close together, to achieve a particular effect of euphony?
Assonance
The grass whispered gently to me.
Personification
I told you one thousand times to clean your room!
Hyperbole
You’re not too shabby for a beginner.
Understatement
A dark light emanated from the room.
Oxymoron
What defines an internal rhyme?
An internal rhyme occurs when two or more words rhyme on the same line of across adjacent lines.
What type of rhyme occurs when the end sound of two lines are similar, but not identical?
Near rhyme.
What is the rhyme scheme?
Your door is shut against my tightened face,
And I am sharp as steel with discontent;
But I possess the courage and the grace
To bear my anger proudly and unbent.
ABAB
Gang
which is Connotation, which is denotation
A)a group of persons having informal and usually close social relations
B)A organized crime group that works together on unlawful actions
A)Denotation
B)Connotation
Determine the litterary devise: Mother Nature seems angry today
Apostrophe
What word is used to define the vocabulary used by the poet?
Diction
Identify the figure of speech.
Donald Trump killed 400 000 people because of his lack of sanitary rules
Metonymy
Identify the figure of speech: It smelled like love. Maybe because it was in the air, this love. All I could think about is love. Am I in love?
Epistrophe
Identify the literary device in the following sentence: he fell asleep under the cherry tree.
Assonance
Identify the literary device marked by capital letters in the following sentence: Beside the lake, benEAth the trEEs
Consonance
Name this rhythm; /x /x /x /x /x /x
Trochaic Hexameter
Identify the figure of speech.
That even as we grieved, we grew
That even as we hurt, we hoped
That even as we tired, we tried
Anaphora
Identify the figure of speech.
You know the tears can’t help but show
You’ll break this heart and tear it apart
Apostrophe
Find the meter and the foot in the following stanza:
And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide,
But through it there rolled not the breath of his pride;
And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf,
And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf.
Anapestic tetrameter
*Note the iambic substitution at the beginning of the lines 1, 2 and 4
