Linguistic Devices Part 1

“To be or not to be - that is the question”

What could you call the dash in this quotation

• An enjambement

• A caesura

• A dash

• A contrast

What is the name for a word that is spelt as it sounds?

Enjambment is when…

• A sentence of poetry continues over more that one line and/or stanza.

• An object is given human characteristics.

• Two things are compared to each other.

• Rhythm is created due to metre

“The wind whistled through the trees” is an example of…

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Adjectives

• Personification

What is this an example of: “My heart dropped like a stone”?

What is a rhyming couplet?

Which of these quotations could be considered to include symbols?

• “Like a cold water among broken reeds“

• “Rain, midnight rain, nothing but the wild rain“

• “Either in pain or thus in sympathy“

• “For washing me cleaner than I have been“

What is this technique: When comparing two different things, as if they were the same.

• Enjambment

• Simile

• Contrast

• Metaphor

Metre is related to what?

A pause, created by punctuation, at the end of a line of poetry is called an …