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Daedalus and Icarus literary devices

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Identify the literary device

a)

alliteration

1.

repetition of letter

b)

anastrophe

2.

inversion of two words

c)

asyndeton

3.

lack of expected conjunction

d)

chiasmus

4.

ABBA word order

e)

enjambment

5.

carrying over word to next line of verse

2.

Identify the literary device

a)

hendiadys

1.

use of two nouns with one verb

b)

juxaposition

2.

contrasting words placed near each other

c)

personification

3.

giving "things" human qualities

d)

prolipsis

4.

one word foreshadowing

e)

simile

5.

comparison with like or as

3.

Identify the literary device

a)

synchesis

1.

ABAB word order

b)

synecdoche

2.

a part standing for the whole

c)

litotes

3.

saying something by negating opposite

d)

polysyndeton

4.

excessive conjunctions

e)

ellipsis

5.

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)