Midterm Exam Flashcards by Claudine Gélinas-Faucher

What kind of foot is the word ‘‘window’’?

A trochee

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What is the following figure of speech in Taylor Swift’s Getaway Car: “We were jet-set, Bonnie and Clyde (oh, oh)” ?

An allusion

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What is the rule of thumb for stressed syllables?

Nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, interjections (Phew!)

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What type of irony is this? Teacher hands out an exam. He says “Enjoy!”

Verbal Irony

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Which figure of speech goes with this definition: a figure that substitutes the name of an object for something closely associated with it (though not part of it).

Metonomy

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What is the figure of speech?

“I walked a million miles to get here.”

Hyperbole

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Find the literary device: Axelle excelled on her exam about excess fractions.

Consonance

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What is the following figure of speech: “Oh, I did ‘alright’ on the test.” Gets 100%

An understatement

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Identify the foot in the word ‘crying’

trochee

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What is the figure of speech?

“Love is a fine wine!”

Metaphore

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What is the figure of speech?

“She was as sly as a fox”

Similie

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What is the stress pattern for a trochee?

Stressed/Unstressed

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What meter is closest to daily speech?

Iambic pentameter (x/)

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Identify the figure of speech: I’m so thirsty I could drink the entire ocean!

hyperbole

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Identify the figure of speech?

“She is just a late bloomer.”

Metaphor

Compares a girl to a flower that blooms after the others

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What is the following figure of speech in Poe’s The Raven: “‘Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door–Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door” ?

An epistrophe

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Find the literary device: sandy sneakers her salty sweets through a secret slip in the wall

alliteration

Identify the two literary device used in the following passage.

“Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down”

Apostrophe (you) and Anaphora (Repetition of “Never gonna”)

Identify the meter of this popular James Bay song named Let it go:

“So come on let it go, just let it be”

Iambic pentameter

True or false? The stress makes the foot

True

Identify the meter on the following sentence: ‘‘When I do count the clock that tells the time’’

Iambic pentameter

Identify the meter:

Standing there east of the mountains

Dactylic trimeter

What is the figure of speech?

“I want all eyes on me”

Synecdoche

Identify the meter:
Stood the wigwam of Nokomis,
Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis,
Dark behind it rose the forest,
Rose the black and gloomy pine trees

Trochaic tetrameter

Identify the meter: "falling down like pieces into place"

trochaic pentameter with a missing unstressed syllable

What is the figure of speech? | "Lightning danced across the sky"

Personification

What is the figure of speech | "small crowd"

Oxymoron

What is the figure of speech | "She felt like she had the golden ticket"

Allusion

find the literary device: clap your hands and stamp your feet

assonance

Identify the meter: | /x /x /x /x /x /x

Trochaic hexameter

Identify the following literary device: "Silence slit the throat of the sitting serpent." Does the device emphasize or undercut the content?

Alliteration, it emphasizes content because the s sounds like a serpent which is part of the line.

What is the figure of speech? | "I am the past, I am the present, I am the future"

Anaphora (there is also a metaphor)

Identify the meter: | To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells

Iambic pentameter

Identify the meter in the foot in the word: Poetry

Dactyl

What is the literary device used in this sentence? A snake slithers on a slippery sidewalk.

Alliteration

What figure of speech does the following define? "A figure of speech in which a synonym or indirect word is used to substitute for a harsh word"

euphemism

Which word is an anapest: a) Garden b) Contradict c) Basketball

Identify: My mom's going to kill me

hyperbole

Identify the meter: | Your Midas touch on the Chevy door

Iambic tetrameter with dactyl substitution on the third foot

Identify the meter: | Find me a time of peace and health

Iambic tetrameter with a substitution of a trochee

Identify the type of rhyme in the following lines: Baby I know places we won't be found. And they'll be chasing their tails trying to track us down.

Near rhyme

"If your questions are good, your example could be on the midterm." - Claudine Gélinas-Faucher

internal rhyme