Literary Terms Quiz #7A

"When it comes, the landscape listens, / Shadows hold their breath," (Emily Dickinson, "There's a certain slant of light")

• Anaphora

• Hendiadys

• Oxymoron

• Personification

• Simile

"The wind stood up and gave a shout. He whistled on his two fingers." (James Stephens, "The Wind")

• Aposiopesis

• Asyndeton

• Chiasmus

• Litotes

• Personification

"Death lays his icy hand on kings." (James Shirley, "The Glories of Our Blood and State.")

• Aposiopesis

• Litotes

• Oxymoron

• Personification

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

• Asyndeton

• Chiasmus

• Oxymoron

• Zeugma

"... the very pin of his heart cleft with the blind bow-boy's butt shaft. And is he a man to encounter Tybalt?" (Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet)

• Alliteration

• Zeugma

• Oxymoron

• Tmesis

The sun shone with light, heat, power.

• Asyndeton

• Metaphor

• Hendiadys

• Tmesis

"Ed's buddy was in the market for a new set of wheels and wanted Ed's opinion about a particular model of Lexus." (Douglas T. Kendrick, Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life)

• Anaphora

• Hendiadys

• Personification

• Synechdoche

She took his hand and his heart.

• Chiasmus

• Polysyndeton

• Personification

• Zeugma

It sure is nice and cool today.

• Apostrophe

• Hendiadys

• Oxymoron

• Personification

This isn't awful.

• Litotes

• Oxymoron

• Polysyndeton

• Synechdoche