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Midterm Exam Flashcards

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1
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What kind of foot is the word ‘‘window’’?

A

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)” ?

A

An allusion

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3
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What is the rule of thumb for stressed syllables?

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

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4
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What type of irony is this? Teacher hands out an exam. He says “Enjoy!”

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Verbal Irony

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5
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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).

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Metonomy

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6
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What is the figure of speech?

“I walked a million miles to get here.”

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Hyperbole

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7
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Find the literary device: Axelle excelled on her exam about excess fractions.

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Consonance

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8
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What is the following figure of speech: “Oh, I did ‘alright’ on the test.” Gets 100%

A

An understatement

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9
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Identify the foot in the word ‘crying’

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trochee

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10
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What is the figure of speech?

“Love is a fine wine!”

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Metaphore

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11
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What is the figure of speech?

“She was as sly as a fox”

A

Similie

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12
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What is the stress pattern for a trochee?

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Stressed/Unstressed

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13
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What meter is closest to daily speech?

A

Iambic pentameter (x/)

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14
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Identify the figure of speech: I’m so thirsty I could drink the entire ocean!

A

hyperbole

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Identify the figure of speech?

“She is just a late bloomer.”

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Metaphor

Compares a girl to a flower that blooms after the others

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16
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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” ?

A

An epistrophe

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17
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Find the literary device: sandy sneakers her salty sweets through a secret slip in the wall

A

alliteration

18
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Identify the two literary device used in the following passage.

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

A

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

19
Q

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

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

A

Iambic pentameter

20
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True or false? The stress makes the foot

A

True

21
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Identify the meter on the following sentence: ‘‘When I do count the clock that tells the time’’

A

Iambic pentameter

22
Q

Identify the meter:

Standing there east of the mountains

A

Dactylic trimeter

23
Q

What is the figure of speech?

“I want all eyes on me”

A

Synecdoche

24
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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
A

Trochaic tetrameter

25
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Identify the meter: “falling down like pieces into place”

A

trochaic pentameter with a missing unstressed syllable

26
Q

What is the figure of speech?

“Lightning danced across the sky”

A

Personification

27
Q

What is the figure of speech

“small crowd”

A

Oxymoron

28
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What is the figure of speech

“She felt like she had the golden ticket”

A

Allusion

29
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find the literary device: clap your hands and stamp your feet

A

assonance

30
Q

Identify the meter:

/x /x /x /x /x /x

A

Trochaic hexameter

31
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Identify the following literary device: “Silence slit the throat of the sitting serpent.”
Does the device emphasize or undercut the content?

A

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

32
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What is the figure of speech?

“I am the past, I am the present, I am the future”

A

Anaphora (there is also a metaphor)

33
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Identify the meter:

To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells

A

Iambic pentameter

34
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Identify the meter in the foot in the word: Poetry

A

Dactyl

34
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What is the literary device used in this sentence? A snake slithers on a slippery sidewalk.

A

Alliteration

35
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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”

A

euphemism

36
Q

Which word is an anapest:

a) Garden
b) Contradict
c) Basketball

A

B

37
Q

Identify: My mom’s going to kill me

A

hyperbole

38
Q

Identify the meter:

Your Midas touch on the Chevy door

A

Iambic tetrameter with dactyl substitution on the third foot

39
Q

Identify the meter:

Find me a time of peace and health

A

Iambic tetrameter with a substitution of a trochee

40
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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.

A

Near rhyme

42
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“If your questions are good, your example could be on the midterm.” - Claudine Gélinas-Faucher

A

internal rhyme

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