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WorksheetsDaedalus and Icarus literary devices
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 20mins
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
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
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
Identify with number only:
Daedalus intereā Crētēn longumque perōsus
exilium,
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Identify with number only:
velut āles, ab altō
quae teneram prōlem prōdūxit in āera nīdō;
(a)
Identify with number only:
nūdōs quatit ille lacertōs
(a)
Identify with number only: ignārus sua sē tractāre perīcla
(a)
Identify with number only: Īcare," ait "moneō, nē, sī dēmissior ībīs,/unda gravet pennās, sī celsior, ignis adūrat
(a)
Identify with number only: tum līnō mediās et cērīs adligat īmās
(a)
Identify with number only: Crēten longumque perōsus/exilium
(a)
Identify with number only: undās/obstruat
(a)
Identify with number only: vaga aura
(a)
Identify with number only: nātūramque novat
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Identify with number only: quās vaga mōverat aura,/captābat plūmās
(a)
Identify with number only: Daedalus intereā Crēten longumque perōsus/exilium tactusque locī nātālis amōre
(a)
Identify with number only: nōn ūllās
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Identify with number only: movet ipse suās
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Identify with number only: hortāturque sequī, damnōsāsque ērudit artēs, et movet ipse suās et nātī respicit ālās.
(a)
