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Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 11mins
How would you define chiasmus?
Repeating the first word of every line in successive lines.
Using metaphor to emphasise a point
Reversing the word order in two or more successive clauses to create an artistic effect.
Listing a series of numbered points.
Which of the following is an example of anaphora?
After you'd gone, I went into you bedroom and released a songbird from its cage.
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous
bandage up me eye to me own identity
What is the name for a technique that uses exaggeration for effect?
hyperbole
anaphora
emotive langauge
alliteration
What is rhetoric?
The art of war
The art of disagreement
The art of persuasion
The art of logic
This figure of speech makes a direct comparison using two unlike things.
simile
metaphor
personification
hyperbole
"Pretty Ugly" is an example of which Figure of Speech?
simile
metaphor
oxymoron
personification
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day
metaphor
allusion
simile
anaphora
What is the figure of speech called when you make a direct comparison without using the words 'like' or 'as'?
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Assonance
Simile
Metaphor
What is the figure of speech called when there is a repetition of vowel sounds?
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia
Assonance
Personification
Metaphor
Identify the figure of speech in the following sentence:
The water angrily flowed towards the sea.
Alliteration
Assonance
Hyperbole
Personification
Alone she cuts and ,binds the grain,
And sings a melancholy strain.
Hypallage or Transferred epithet
Metaphor
Simile
Alliteration
O,that this too,too solid flesh would melt.
This is an apostrophe because addressing is there.
This is an exclamation because the expression is introduced by the interjection 'O' and concluded by note of exclamation.
None of these
O sylvan Wye! thou wanderer through the woods.
It is the case of
Exclamation
Personification
Apostrophe bacuase here short impassioned address is made to river,inanimate object.
None of these
Down to the pool and narrow wharf he went.
This is the case of ...
Hyperbole
Hyperbaton
Innouendo
Metonymy
An old man's eagle's mind.
This is an instance...
Metaphor
Epigram
Paradox
Irony
Beauty can not keep her lustrous eyes.
This is an example of..
Pathetic Fallacy
Personification
Periphresis
Pun
And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds.
Transferred Epithet
Metonymy (folds is used in place of their sheep-container for thing contained)
Onomatopoeia
Metaphor because there is an implied comparison between the tinklings of a bell and the lullabies of mother.
All the above
The rainbow comes and goes
And lovely is the rose.
It is an instance of..
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
None of these
Heard melodies are sweet , but those unheard are sweeter.
Antithesis,Epigram
Metaphor,Anaphora
Hyperbaton,Hyperbole
Irony,Periphresis
He is basking in the sun.
This is ...
Palilogy
Zeugma
Tautology
Metonymy
