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Daedalus and Icarus literary devices

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Identify the literary device

anastrophe

repetition of letter

enjambment

inversion of two words

alliteration

lack of expected conjunction

chiasmus

ABBA word order

asyndeton

carrying over word to next line of verse

2.

Identify the literary device

personification

use of two nouns with one verb

simile

contrasting words placed near each other

juxaposition

giving "things" human qualities

hendiadys

one word foreshadowing

prolipsis

comparison with like or as

3.

Identify the literary device

ellipsis

ABAB word order

polysyndeton

a part standing for the whole

litotes

saying something by negating opposite

synchesis

excessive conjunctions

synecdoche

leaving out understood word

4.

Identify with number only:

Daedalus intereā Crētēn longumque perōsus

exilium,

(a)  

5.

Identify with number only:

velut āles, ab altō

quae teneram prōlem prōdūxit in āera nīdō;

(a)  

6.

Identify with number only:

nūdōs quatit ille lacertōs

(a)  

7.

Identify with number only: ignārus sua sē tractāre perīcla

(a)  

8.

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

(a)  

9.

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

(a)  

10.

Identify with number only: Crēten longumque perōsus/exilium

(a)  

11.

Identify with number only: undās/obstruat

(a)  

12.

Identify with number only: vaga aura

(a)  

13.

Identify with number only: nātūramque novat

(a)  

14.

Identify with number only: quās vaga mōverat aura,/captābat plūmās

(a)  

15.

Identify with number only: Daedalus intereā Crēten longumque perōsus/exilium tactusque locī nātālis amōre

(a)  

16.

Identify with number only: nōn ūllās

(a)  

17.

Identify with number only: movet ipse suās

(a)  

18.

Identify with number only: hortāturque sequī, damnōsāsque ērudit artēs, et movet ipse suās et nātī respicit ālās.

(a)