Midterm Review Flashcards
What foot starts with a stressed syllable and an unstressed syllable?
Trochee
What foot starts with an unstressed syllable and has a stressed syllable which follows it?
Iamb
What foot starts with two consecutive unstressed syllables and ends with a stressed syllable?
Anapest
Name a synonym of near rhyme.
Slant Rhyme or Half-Rhyme
What foot starts with one stressed syllables and ends with two consecutive unstressed syllables?
Dactyl
What do you call a line with one foot ?
Monometer
What is a the following literary device ? My grandma kicked the bucket.
Euphemism
Name the sound device used in this sentence.
“Boby read a book by the babbling brook.”
Alliteration and consonance
What is the following meter: x/ x/ x/ x/
Iambic tetrameter
Identify the literary device: “He cried as though he was a rainy cloud.”
Simile
What is this figure of speech:
She felt as if she had won a golden ticket
Allusion (Charlie and the chocolate factory)
Give the definition of a euphonic sound
A pleasant sound to hear
Name the sound device used in this sentence.
“It will creep and beep while you sleep.”
Internal rhyme
What does the use of an apostrophe imply?
It implies that the speaker is talking to someone who is not present.
Identify literary device:
“The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared.”
Internal rhyme
Identify the meter of the following sentence: I wandered lonely as a cloud
Iambic Tetrameter
Identify and explain the literary device: “You are the death of me.”
Metaphor. The “you” is compared to death.
Identify the type of rhyme in the following line:
Boy toy named Troy used to live in Detroit
(Anaconda - Nicki Minaj)
Internal Rhyme
Name the sound device used in this sentence.
“Peter picked a peck of pickle.”
Alliteration
What is the difference between an anaphora and an epistrophe?
Anaphora: Repitition of the same word at the start of a line
Epistrophe: Repetition of the same word at the end of a line
What is the following literary device ? We seem to be in a bit of a pickle (when they are about to be killed).
Understatement
Which of the following is not a type of connotation?
- Personal
- Individual
- Dictionary definition
- Universal
3- Dictionary definition
It is the denotation of a word.
What is the following meter: /xx /xx /xx /xx /xx /xx /xx /xx
Dactylic Octameter
Identify the sound-related device: “What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!”
Assonance of the “o” sound
What is the difference between a euphemism and an understatement?
A euphemism tries to attenuate the harsh reality of something, whereas an understatement downplays the intensity of a situation.
Name the sound device used in this sentence.
“He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.”
Consonance of the sound “sts”
Identify the meter of the following sentence: In the blink of an eye
Anapestic dimeter
Identify the type of rhyme in the following line:
Ooh, your necklace hanging from my neck
The night we couldn’t quite forget
(Out of the woods - Taylor Swift)
Near Rhyme
Is this sentence an understatement or a piece of irony ? She gave birth to me, raised me from an infant, always provided for me…Maybe I owe her one…
Understatement
Name this literary device:
I waited all day
It was a very long day
Oh, how I’ve had very bad day
Epistophe
What is the figurative language used in the following sentence?
“What a sad, beautiful tragic love affair” - Taylor Swift
Oxymoron: The use of two consecutive words that oppose each other. (beautiful tragic)
Identify the meter:
/x /x /x /x /x
Trochaic Pentameter
How is the poet’s choice of words called?
Diction
What do you call a line with 6 feet?
hexameter
Identify the type of rhyme in the following line:
Just wakin’ up in the mornin’, gotta thank God
I don’t know but today seems kinda odd
(It was a good day - Ice Cube)
End Rhyme
What is the figurative language used in the following line?
“You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes” - Our king, Michael Jackson
Personification: Giving human attributes to inanimate objects/ animals/ abstract concepts. (Horror looks you right between the eyes)
Name the sound device used in this sentence.
“Maggie comes fleet foot.”
Alliteration
True or False : The unstressed syllables create the foot
False
Name this figure of speech:
Get out of bed
Get your clothes on
Get breakfast
Get to school
Anaphora
What is the figurative language used when the speaker uses a second person pronoun to talk to someone who is not in the poem?
Apostrophe
Identify the following literary device: “Let’s drink some shots!”
Metonymy
What is the type of irony in: ‘’ An Olympic swimmer but the weight of his medal makes him fall in the pool and drown’’.
Situational irony
Name the sound device used in this sentence.
“The zoo was amazing, especially the lizards and chimpanzees.”
Consonance
What is the figure of speech in this song lyric:
“Romeo take me somewhere we can be alone”
Allusion
What is the effect of irony in a poem?
It undercuts the intensity, and can be used to create a humorous effect.
Name the sound device used in this sentence.
“No pain, no gain.”
internal rhyme
Identify the following literary device: “You broke my heart.”
Metaphor
Identify the meter of this line:
Oh! yet a little while
Iambic trimeter with a substituted spondee on the first foot.
What differentiate metonymy and synecdoche?
Metonymy is when something is introduced by a new name related to the original concept and synecdoche refers to the part of something to represent the whole
A ____________ is a figurative language that uses exaggeration to add emphasis and, in some cases, irony and dramatic effect.
Hyperbole
Identify the following literary device: “Many hands kept pulling the kid far away.
Synecdoche
What is the connotation of “kill” in this line from Ellen Kay’s Pathedy of Manners and what does it add to the poem?
“Toying with plots to kill time and re-wed”
The connotation of “kill” is that it is a morally reprehensible act. This conveys that the person is spending their time in a way that is dishonorable.
Identify the following literary device: “The whiskers trembled in fear.”
Synecdoche
The attribution of human characteristics to the inanimate/ abstract is called a _____________.
Personnification
Identify the rhyme scheme in the following line:
Find the end of the rainbow with a fortune to win
It’s so different from the world I’m living in
Tired of TV
I open the window and I gaze into the night
But there’s nothing there to see, no one in sight
A
A
B
C
C
True or false? ‘’A man wins the lottery but spends all his winnings on lottery tickets and loses all of them’’ is an example of situational irony
False
What are the two possible effects of irony
- Display humour
- Display tragedy
True or False, this is a near rhyme:
There lived a certain man in Russia long ago
He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow
False
Is this a metonymy or a synecdoche?
The suits on Wallstreet are working hard.
Metonymy
What are 3 tools used by poets to create the voice? These are inherently also ways for the reader to assign characteristics to it.
There were 5 options:
1. Diction
2. Tone
3. The use of figurative language
4. The use of short or long sentences
5. The use of formal or informal language
