Midterm Exam Flashcards
Identify the figure of speech in the following line and explain it.
The suits on Wall Street just walked off with most of our savings.
metonymy, the term “businessman” is replaced with the word “suits” which is often associated with businessmen
What is the figure of speech in the following sentence?
“Stop being a Grinch and enjoy yourself a little!”
Allusion
Identify the literary device: Vivien is very vixen-like and vexing.
Alliteration
What is the literary device based on sound in the following sentence?
Why would we want work?
It is an alliteration. More specifically, they are liquids.
What is the figure of speech in the following sentence?
“I’m so hungry, I could eat a cow”
Hyperbole
Identify the type of rhyme:
I walk up to the place;
I had walked for days
near-rhyme
What is the figure of speech used in the following sentence?
“Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.”
Alliteration
Identify the figure of speech.
“The moon dances over your good side.”
Personification
Identify the sound-related literary device:
The stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes
internal rhyme
Identify the following meter: Cannon to right of them
Dactylic dimeter
What nonmenclature is appropriate for a 7 foot meter
heptameter
What is the sound literary device in the following sentence?
Super silent stupid slithery snakes sliding supersonic slippery slopes.
It is an alliteration of the “s” sound which is present at the beginning of the words, which has a special name called sibilants.
Also consonance would be accepted in regards to the “l” sound in the middle of the words.
Identify the figure of speech in these sentences
“Life is eating a grapefruit. First, one breaks its skin; then one takes a few bites to get used to its taste, and finally one starts enjoying its flavor.”
Extended metaphor
Identify the figure of speech used in the following sentence: How could she marry a snake like that?”
It is a metaphor, comparing the husband to a snake.
Identify the rhyme scheme:
They that in play can do the thing they would,
Having an instinct throned in reason’s place,
–And every perfect action hath the grace
Of indolence or thoughtless hardihood–
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B
B
A
What is the sound-related literary device used in the following sentence?
“The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain”
Internal rhyme and Assonance
What is the connotation of the word blue?
Feeling sad, feeling peaceful, rested, serenity
Identify the figure of speech
“I would catch a grenade for ya”
Hyperbole
Identify the following meter: In the midst of the word he was trying to say.
Anapestic tetrameter
Identify the figure of speech:
“Carl had to let go a few of his employees due to a decrease in budget.”
Euphemism
What would be the denotation of home?
The place such as a house or apartment where a person lives.
Identify the figure of speech
“ This problem is driving me crazy”
Personification (there is also a metaphor, comparing the process of becoming crazy to the process of bring driven somewhere).
Identify this sound based literary device:
He struck a streak of bad luck.
Consonance (there is also internal rhyme in here)
What is the figure of speech used in the following sentence?
“And a government of the people,
by the people,
for the people,
shall not perish from the Earth.”
Epistrophe
Identify the figure of speech:
“She did not take her eyes off the television all day.”
Hyperbole
Identify the foot in: “for goodbye”
anapest
Identify the following figure of speech: “ He won ten million dollars, I guess he will be able to buy his coffee tomorrow!”
Understatement
True or false: the stress makes the foot.
True
Identify the following figure of speech:
I used to live in the bright darkness.
Oxymoron
What type of irony occurs if “a fire station burns down”?
Situational irony
True or false. The following sentence is a simile: “He had a heart of stone.”
False
Identify the type of rhyme in the following sentence “I could spend hours walking in the flowers”.
Internal rhyming
What is the figure of speech in the following sentence:
Does my sassiness upset you?
Apostrophe
Identify the following figure of speech: “Ukraine requires boots on the ground.”
Ukraine is a metonymy, because it represents the government, and boots is a synecdoche, because it represents soldiers (a part for the whole).
Identify the figure of speech:
“Now there’s a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky”
Simile
Which type of irony is exemplified in this sentence?
The police station was robbed yesterday.
situational irony
True or false. The following sentence is an anaphora: “Their love will turn out to be a Romeo and Juliet story.”
false, it is allusion
What type of figure of speech can you find in this sentence: Looking at her son’s messy room, Mom says, “Wow you could win an award for cleanliness!”?
Verbal Irony
What is the figure of speech used in the following sentence?
“Your hair is like hay.”
Simile
Identify the figure of speech in the following line and explain it.
Mary’s voice is music to my ears.
metaphor, Mary’s voice is being compared to music.
Identify the figure of speech in the following line and explain it.
David is warm like the sun.
simile, David’s warmth is being compared to the sun using the word “like”.
Identify the figure of speech in the following line and explain it.
The car danced across the icy road.
personification, the car is giving the human characteristic of dance
Identify the figure of speech in the following line and explain it.
We are alone together.
oxymoron, the terms “alone” and “together” contradict each other
Identify the figure of speech in the following line and explain it.
Audrey is big-boned.
euphemism, the term “big-boned” is used instead of saying “fat” which would be impolite
Identify the figure of speech in the following line and explain it.
Her smile was a mile wide .
hyperbole, describing the smile as being one mile wide is an exaggeration
Identify the figure of speech in the following line and explain it.
To the uninitiated, neurophysiology can be a bit of a challenge.
understatement, neurophysiology would be an extremely difficult pursuit for someone who has little to no knowledge on the subject
Identify the figure of speech in the following line and explain it.
It was the best of times.
It was the worst of times.
anaphora, “it was the”, is repeated at the beginning of each line to create an emphasis (there is also an epistrophe)
Identify the figure of speech in the following line and explain it.
See no evil.
Hear no evil.
Speak no evil.
epistrophe, “no evil” is repeated at the end of each line
Identify the figure of speech in the following line and explain it.
Oh, nature, thou art my goddess.
apostrophe, the exclamation “oh” and “thou” addresses someone directly within the poem itself (there is also a personification)
Identify the figure of speech in the following line and explain it.
Chocolate is my Achilles Heel.
allusion, “Achilles Heel” is a reference to Greek mythology (there is also a metaphor comparing chocolate to the heel of Achilles, the only part of his body that was vulnerable).
Identify the following figure of speech: “The ocean waved in my direction.”
personification
What is the figure of speech?
My village has been submerged by water.
Hyperbole
Identify the type of rhyme:
If you go to jail, then who will pay the bail?
Internal Rhyme
What is the sound literary device in the following sentence?
Its a plain shame that it rains in Spain
This is an internal rhyme due to the repetition of the “ain” sound
Name the meter :
/ U / U / U / U
Trochaic Tetrameter
Identify the type of rhyme:
Today I cough:
Because of the bough
Eye rhyme
Name the meter :
U U / U U / U U / U U / U U /
Anapestic Pentameter
Scan the word (with ba boom) :
eternal
U / U (ba boom ba)
What is the figure of speech used in the following sentence?
“How are you? You almost died!”
“I’ve been better.”
Understatement
Scan the word (with ba boom) :
pterodactyl
/ U / U (boom ba boom ba)
Identify the figure of speech
You looked a bit “under the weather” today.
the person was green and vomited everywhere
Understatement
Identify the sound related literary device:
“I have become comfortably numb”
Internal rhyme
