Final Exam Review Honors - Fall 21

A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things using "like" or "as"

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Allusion

Makes an implicit, implied, or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated, typically using a "to be" verb

• Epic Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

"I began to remember the whispers of my cousins in Oceanus' halls so long ago. If a god did not wish your child to be born, they might hold Eileithyia [Lady of Labor] back." (Miller 241)

• Allusion

• Epithet

• Foreshadowing

• Alliteration

"So by day she'd weave at her great and growing web - by night, by the light of torches set beside her, she would unravel all she'd done." (2.115-117)

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Motif

• Personification

A figure of speech in which a thing - idea or animal - is given human attributes

• Personification

• Epithet

• Metaphor

• Allusion

A descriptive name or title

• Epithet

• Motif

• Metaphor

• Allusion

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

• Motif

• Epic Simile

• Simile

• Alliteration

"Naiaids show their feelings as water shows ripples." (Miller 178)

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Personification

"You know the stories. Oedipus, Paris. Their parents tried to murder them, yet still they lived to bear their fates." (Miller 292)

• Allusion

• Foreshadowing

• Motif

• Epithet

"My garden climbed the walls of my house, breathed its scent through my windows." (Miller 100)

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Allusion