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Poetry 603-103 Section 60329 > Literary Devices (Form and Content) > Flashcards

Literary Devices (Form and Content) Flashcards

1
Q

What do you call a meter with seven feet?

  1. Dimeter
  2. Pentameter
  3. Heptameter
  4. Hexameter
A
  1. Heptameter
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2
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Identify the following figure of speech: Garry grumpily gathered the garbage.

A

Alliteration

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3
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Identify the literary device indicated with capital letters in the followed sentence.
“A chafing savage, down the decenT streeT”

A

Consonance

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4
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Identify the figure of speech.

Her heart is gold.

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Metaphor

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5
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Identify the figure of speech.

I will drink a glass.

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Synecdoche

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My grandma passed away last year.

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Euphemism

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Identify the literary device marked in capital letters in the followed sentence.
“A chafing savage, down the decenT streeT”

A

Consonance

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8
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Identify the figure of speech.

Falling for him made me fly

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Paradox

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Falling for him made me fly

A

Paradox

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10
Q

Identify the figure of speech:

If I am not home by midnight, my car might turn into a pumpkin.

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Allusion

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11
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Identify the literary device in the followed sentence.

“A chafing savage, down the decent street”

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Consonance

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12
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“Then it opened its mouth like it wanted to speak.” What is the foot and meter here?

A

Anapestic Tetrameter

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13
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What are the foot and the meter of the word “Farewell” ?

A

Iambic monometer

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14
Q

How do you call the repetition of similar vowel sounds, usually close together, to achieve a particular effect of euphony?

A

Assonance

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The grass whispered gently to me.

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Personification

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16
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I told you one thousand times to clean your room!

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Hyperbole

17
Q

You’re not too shabby for a beginner.

A

Understatement

18
Q

A dark light emanated from the room.

A

Oxymoron

19
Q

What defines an internal rhyme?

A

An internal rhyme occurs when two or more words rhyme on the same line of across adjacent lines.

20
Q

What type of rhyme occurs when the end sound of two lines are similar, but not identical?

A

Near rhyme.

21
Q

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.

A

ABAB

22
Q

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

A)Denotation

B)Connotation

23
Q

Determine the litterary devise: Mother Nature seems angry today

A

Apostrophe

24
Q

What word is used to define the vocabulary used by the poet?

A

Diction

25
Q

Identify the figure of speech.

Donald Trump killed 400 000 people because of his lack of sanitary rules

A

Metonymy

26
Q 
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?
A

Epistrophe

27
Q

Identify the literary device in the following sentence: he fell asleep under the cherry tree.

A

Assonance

28
Q

Identify the literary device marked by capital letters in the following sentence: Beside the lake, benEAth the trEEs

A

Consonance

29
Q

Name this rhythm; /x /x /x /x /x /x

A

Trochaic Hexameter

30
Q

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

A

Anaphora

31
Q

Identify the figure of speech.

You know the tears can’t help but show
You’ll break this heart and tear it apart

A

Apostrophe

32
Q

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.

A

Anapestic tetrameter

*Note the iambic substitution at the beginning of the lines 1, 2 and 4

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