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Proverbs and Idioms flashcards
1
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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.

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metonymy, the term “businessman” is replaced with the word “suits” which is often associated with businessmen

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What is the figure of speech in the following sentence?

“Stop being a Grinch and enjoy yourself a little!”

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Allusion

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Identify the literary device: Vivien is very vixen-like and vexing.

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Alliteration

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What is the literary device based on sound in the following sentence?

Why would we want work?

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It is an alliteration. More specifically, they are liquids.

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5
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What is the figure of speech in the following sentence?

“I’m so hungry, I could eat a cow”

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Hyperbole

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Identify the type of rhyme:

I walk up to the place;
I had walked for days

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near-rhyme

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What is the figure of speech used in the following sentence?

“Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.”

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Alliteration

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Identify the figure of speech.

“The moon dances over your good side.”

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Personification

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Identify the sound-related literary device:

The stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes

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internal rhyme

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Identify the following meter: Cannon to right of them

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Dactylic dimeter

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What nonmenclature is appropriate for a 7 foot meter

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heptameter

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What is the sound literary device in the following sentence?

Super silent stupid slithery snakes sliding supersonic slippery slopes.

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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.

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13
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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.”

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Extended metaphor

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Identify the figure of speech used in the following sentence: How could she marry a snake like that?”

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It is a metaphor, comparing the husband to a snake.

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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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A
B
B
A

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16
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What is the sound-related literary device used in the following sentence?

“The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain”

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Internal rhyme and Assonance

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What is the connotation of the word blue?

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Feeling sad, feeling peaceful, rested, serenity

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18
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Identify the figure of speech

“I would catch a grenade for ya”

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Hyperbole

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Identify the following meter: In the midst of the word he was trying to say.

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Anapestic tetrameter

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20
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Identify the figure of speech:

“Carl had to let go a few of his employees due to a decrease in budget.”

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Euphemism

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21
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What would be the denotation of home?

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The place such as a house or apartment where a person lives.

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22
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Identify the figure of speech

“ This problem is driving me crazy”

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Personification (there is also a metaphor, comparing the process of becoming crazy to the process of bring driven somewhere).

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23
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Identify this sound based literary device:

He struck a streak of bad luck.

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Consonance (there is also internal rhyme in here)

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24
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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.”

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Epistrophe

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25
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Identify the figure of speech:

“She did not take her eyes off the television all day.”

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Hyperbole

26
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Identify the foot in: “for goodbye”

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anapest

27
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Identify the following figure of speech: “ He won ten million dollars, I guess he will be able to buy his coffee tomorrow!”

A

Understatement

28
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True or false: the stress makes the foot.

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True

29
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Identify the following figure of speech:

I used to live in the bright darkness.

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Oxymoron

30
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What type of irony occurs if “a fire station burns down”?

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Situational irony

31
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True or false. The following sentence is a simile: “He had a heart of stone.”

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False

32
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Identify the type of rhyme in the following sentence “I could spend hours walking in the flowers”.

A

Internal rhyming

33
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What is the figure of speech in the following sentence:

Does my sassiness upset you?

A

Apostrophe

34
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Identify the following figure of speech: “Ukraine requires boots on the ground.”

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Ukraine is a metonymy, because it represents the government, and boots is a synecdoche, because it represents soldiers (a part for the whole).

35
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Identify the figure of speech:

“Now there’s a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky”

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Simile

36
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Which type of irony is exemplified in this sentence?

The police station was robbed yesterday.

A

situational irony

37
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True or false. The following sentence is an anaphora: “Their love will turn out to be a Romeo and Juliet story.”

A

false, it is allusion

38
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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!”?

A

Verbal Irony

39
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What is the figure of speech used in the following sentence?

“Your hair is like hay.”

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Simile

40
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Identify the figure of speech in the following line and explain it.
Mary’s voice is music to my ears.

A

metaphor, Mary’s voice is being compared to music.

41
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Identify the figure of speech in the following line and explain it.
David is warm like the sun.

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simile, David’s warmth is being compared to the sun using the word “like”.

42
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Identify the figure of speech in the following line and explain it.
The car danced across the icy road.

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personification, the car is giving the human characteristic of dance

43
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Identify the figure of speech in the following line and explain it.
We are alone together.

A

oxymoron, the terms “alone” and “together” contradict each other

44
Q

Identify the figure of speech in the following line and explain it.
Audrey is big-boned.

A

euphemism, the term “big-boned” is used instead of saying “fat” which would be impolite

45
Q

Identify the figure of speech in the following line and explain it.
Her smile was a mile wide .

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hyperbole, describing the smile as being one mile wide is an exaggeration

46
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Identify the figure of speech in the following line and explain it.
To the uninitiated, neurophysiology can be a bit of a challenge.

A

understatement, neurophysiology would be an extremely difficult pursuit for someone who has little to no knowledge on the subject

47
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Identify the figure of speech in the following line and explain it.
It was the best of times.
It was the worst of times.

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anaphora, “it was the”, is repeated at the beginning of each line to create an emphasis (there is also an epistrophe)

48
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Identify the figure of speech in the following line and explain it.
See no evil.
Hear no evil.
Speak no evil.

A

epistrophe, “no evil” is repeated at the end of each line

49
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Identify the figure of speech in the following line and explain it.
Oh, nature, thou art my goddess.

A

apostrophe, the exclamation “oh” and “thou” addresses someone directly within the poem itself (there is also a personification)

50
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Identify the figure of speech in the following line and explain it.
Chocolate is my Achilles Heel.

A

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).

51
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Identify the following figure of speech: “The ocean waved in my direction.”

A

personification

52
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What is the figure of speech?

My village has been submerged by water.

A

Hyperbole

53
Q

Identify the type of rhyme:

If you go to jail, then who will pay the bail?

A

Internal Rhyme

54
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What is the sound literary device in the following sentence?

Its a plain shame that it rains in Spain

A

This is an internal rhyme due to the repetition of the “ain” sound

55
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Name the meter :

/ U / U / U / U

A

Trochaic Tetrameter

56
Q

Identify the type of rhyme:

Today I cough:
Because of the bough

A

Eye rhyme

57
Q

Name the meter :

U U / U U / U U / U U / U U /

A

Anapestic Pentameter

58
Q

Scan the word (with ba boom) :

eternal

A

U / U (ba boom ba)

59
Q

What is the figure of speech used in the following sentence?

“How are you? You almost died!”
“I’ve been better.”

A

Understatement

60
Q

Scan the word (with ba boom) :

pterodactyl

A

/ U / U (boom ba boom ba)

61
Q

Identify the figure of speech
You looked a bit “under the weather” today.
the person was green and vomited everywhere

A

Understatement

62
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Identify the sound related literary device:

“I have become comfortably numb”

A

Internal rhyme

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