WorksheetsELT Unit 2 Quiz
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Marc Antony gives a speech in which he repeatedly refers to Brutus as "an honorable man," when Brutus just participated in murdering Caesar.
a)
litotes
b)
hyperbole
c)
verbal irony
d)
dramatic irony
2.
"Suit the action to the word, the word to the action." Shakespeare's Hamlet
a)
Antithesis
b)
Chiasmus
c)
Conceit
d)
Anaphora
3.
"Not I, believe me. You have dancing shoes With nimble soles; I have a soul of lead So stakes me to the ground I cannot move." Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare (Romeo on why he won't dance.)
a)
periphrasis
b)
pun
c)
litotes
d)
verbal irony
4.
"Are you also aware, Mrs. Bueller, that Ferris does not have what we consider to be an exemplary attendance record?" Ferris Bueller's Day Off
a)
Pun
b)
Antithesis
c)
Verbal Irony
d)
Litotes
5.
In the Greek myth about Narcissus, Narcissus is so prideful of his own beauty, that he sits staring at his reflection until he starves to death.
a)
Hubris
b)
Antithesis
c)
Catharsis
d)
Epistrophe
6.
When he became the first man to walk on the moon, Neil Armstrong said that it was a "small step for man, but a giant leap for mankind."
a)
Personification
b)
Pathetic Fallacy
c)
Antithesis
d)
Hyperbole
7.
"Parting is such sweet sorrow." Romeo and Juliet
a)
Oxymoron
b)
Paradox
c)
Litotes
d)
Anaphora
8.
"The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night." Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
a)
antithesis
b)
simile
c)
chiasmus
d)
personification
9.
"I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas." T.S. Eliot
a)
Simile
b)
Synecdoche
c)
Metonymy
d)
Periphrasis
10.
"The night has been unruly ... Lamentings heard in th' air, strange screams of death ... The obscure bird clamored the livelong night. Some say the Earth was feverous and did shake." -Macbeth
a)
Metaphor
b)
Litotes
c)
Personification
d)
Pathetic Fallacy
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