Daedalus and Icarus literary devices

Identify the literary device

• inversion of two words

• chiasmus

• lack of expected conjunction

• enjambment

• ABBA word order

• asyndeton

• carrying over word to next line of verse

• anastrophe

• repetition of letter

• alliteration

Identify the literary device

• giving "things" human qualities

• juxaposition

• comparison with like or as

• personification

• contrasting words placed near each other

• simile

• one word foreshadowing

• hendiadys

• use of two nouns with one verb

• prolipsis

Identify the literary device

• ABAB word order

• synecdoche

• a part standing for the whole

• polysyndeton

• leaving out understood word

• litotes

• saying something by negating opposite

• synchesis

• excessive conjunctions

• ellipsis

Identify with number only:

Daedalus intereā Crētēn longumque perōsus

exilium,

Identify with number only:

velut āles, ab altō

quae teneram prōlem prōdūxit in āera nīdō;

Identify with number only:

nūdōs quatit ille lacertōs

Identify with number only: ignārus sua sē tractāre perīcla

Identify with number only: Īcare," ait "moneō, nē, sī dēmissior ībīs,/unda gravet pennās, sī celsior, ignis adūrat

Identify with number only: tum līnō mediās et cērīs adligat īmās

Identify with number only: Crēten longumque perōsus/exilium