Question 1

Metaphor

"I smell success in this building." / "Laughter is the best medicine."

Accepted Answer

(FLD) makes a comparison between two non-similar things, creates implicit comparisons without “like” or “as.” Asserting that two things are identical in comparison rather than just similar.

Question 2

Simile

"Pretty as a picture" / "Works like a charm"

Accepted Answer

(FLD) Comparing two dissimilar things  and making them similar with "like" or "as"

Question 3

Paradox

"Less is more" / "The enemy of my enemy is my friend"

Accepted Answer

(FLD)  A statement that appears contradictory or wrong, but upon reflection makes sense.

Question 4

Personification 

"My phone is not cooperating with me today" / My alarm yelled at me this morning."

Accepted Answer

(FLD) Giving inhuman things human attributes/ feelings.

Question 5

Allusion 

"She smiles like a Cheshire cat." / I wish I could just click my heels." / His smile is like kryptonite to me."

Accepted Answer

(FLD) An EXPRESSION designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

Question 6

Apostrophe 

"O, father! I wish you were here with me to help me out of this conundrum." / Alarm clock, please don’t fail me." / Heaven, help us."

Accepted Answer

(FLD) A speech or address to a person who is not present or to a personified object

Question 7

Foreshadowing 

"I have a bad feeling about this” /  By the pricking of my thumb,
Something wicked this way comes."

Accepted Answer

(FLD) a literary device that writers utilize as a means to indicate or hint to readers something that is to follow or appear later in a story.

Question 8

Hyperbole 

"I’m so hungry that I could eat a horse." / She loves him more than life itself" / I'm dying of thirst"

Accepted Answer

(FLD) A boldly overstated or exaggerated  statement that adds emphasis without the intention of being literally true

Question 9

Verbal Irony

“She is tolerable but not handsome enough to tempt me.”

Accepted Answer

(FLD) When the speaker says the opposite of what they mean (sarcasm w/o the attitude)

Question 10

Dramatic Irony

Accepted Answer

(FLD) When the audience knows more about the even, situation, or conversation than the characters do

Question 11

Situational Irony 

"Cat chasing a ferocious dog"

Accepted Answer

(FLD)  When the exact opposite of what was expected to happen, happens

Question 12

Understatement 

"2020 was not the best of the times and also not the worst of the times." / She gained a little weight. It’s not a big deal jumping from Size 8 to 16."

Accepted Answer

(FLD) When writers or speakers intentionally make a situation seem less important than it really is

Question 13

Symbolism

"red rose–symbolizes love and romance" / four-leaf clover–symbolizes good luck or fortune"

Accepted Answer

(FLD)  The use of symbols in a literary work that stands for or suggests something else; it represents something beyond literal meaning.

Question 14

Tone

Accepted Answer

(FLD) Literary device that reflects the writer’s attitude toward the subject matter or audience of a literary work.

Question 15

Kennings 

"battle-sweat" = blood / "whale-road" = sea / "Four-Eyes" = Glasses Wearer

Accepted Answer

(FLD)  A two-word phrase that describes an object through metaphors in order to provide a different and richer meaning for that object to an audience.

Question 16

Alliteration  

"Peter Piper pecked a pack of pickled peppers. A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked."

Accepted Answer

(SD) Reflects repetition in two or more nearby words of initial consonant sounds at the BEGINNING of words.

Question 17

Onomatopoeia 

"buzz" /  "thump" / "rustle" / "Meow" / "Moo"

Accepted Answer

(SD) A word that sounds like what it refers to or describes.

Question 18

Assonance 

"Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy-Days of Summer" / "I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them Sam I Am."

Accepted Answer

(SD) Repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence.

Question 19

Consonance 

"Pitter Patter" / "Paddy's potatoes were prepared to perfection"

Accepted Answer

(SD) The repetition of the same consonant sounds in a line of text.

Question 20

Slant Rhyme / "Half Rhyme" 

“Not any higher stands the Grave
For Heroes than for men—
Not any nearer for the Child
Than numb Three Score and Ten—”

Accepted Answer

(SD)  The rhyming words sound similar; however, they are often not very close to make a complete rhyme.

Question 21

Internal Rhyme 

Same Line:  “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,"

Separate Line: “While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,"

End of, and Middle of Line: (Pretty Self Explanatory)

Accepted Answer

(SD) Poetic device that can be defined as metrical lines in which its middle words and its end words rhyme with one another.
It occurs within a single line or a verse.

Question 22

End Rhyme 

“A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.”

Accepted Answer

(SD) Occurs when the last syllables or words in two or more lines rhyme with each other. 
Comes at the end of two successive lines.

Question 23

Rhythm

Accepted Answer

(SD) Literary device that demonstrates the long and short patterns through stressed and unstressed syllables, particularly in verse form.
There are 5 types of rhythm.  Stressed ( / ) & Unstressed ( x ) syllables. Each unit is called a Foot.

Question 24

Caesura 

"The headphone explodes, || breaking the mold"

Accepted Answer

(SD) A pause for a breath in a poetic line.

Question 25

Enjambment 

"April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain."

Accepted Answer

(SD) A line of poetry carries its idea or thought over to the next line without a grammatical pause.

Question 26

Meter

"To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
For as you were when first your eye I eyed,
Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold
Have from the forests shook three summers’ pride,"

Accepted Answer

(SD) The pattern of beats in a line of poetry. It is a combination of the number of beats and arrangement of stresses.

Question 27

Iambic Pentameter and Elision 

"Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?" /
 da DUM |  da DUM |  da DUM |  da DUM |  da DUM

Accepted Answer

(SD) A line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable,

Question 28

Lamb ( x / )

“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”

Accepted Answer

This is the most commonly used rhythm. It consists of two syllables, the first of which is not stressed, while the second syllable is stressed.

Question 29

Trochee ( / x ) 

“Tell me not, in mournful numbers”

Accepted Answer

A type of poetic foot commonly used in English poetry. It has two syllables, the first of which is strongly stressed, while the second syllable is unstressed.

Question 30

Spondee ( / / ) 

“White founts falling in the Courts of the sun”

Accepted Answer

A poetic foot that has two syllables, which are consecutively stressed.

Question 31

Dactyl ( / x x ) 

“This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,”

The words “primeval” and “murmuring” show dactyls in this line.

Accepted Answer

Made up of three syllables. The first syllable is stressed, and the remaining two syllables are not stressed, such as in the word “marvelous.”

Question 32

Anapest ( x x / ) 

” ‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house,”

Accepted Answer

Total opposites of dactyls. They have three syllables; where the first two syllables are not stressed, and the last syllable is stressed.

Term	Definition
Metaphor "I smell success in this building." / "Laughter is the best medicine."	(FLD) makes a comparison between two non-similar things, creates implicit comparisons without “like” or “as.” Asserting that two things are identical in comparison rather than just similar.
Simile "Pretty as a picture" / "Works like a charm"	(FLD) Comparing two dissimilar things and making them similar with "like" or "as"
Paradox "Less is more" / "The enemy of my enemy is my friend"	(FLD) A statement that appears contradictory or wrong, but upon reflection makes sense.
Personification "My phone is not cooperating with me today" / My alarm yelled at me this morning."	(FLD) Giving inhuman things human attributes/ feelings.
Allusion "She smiles like a Cheshire cat." / I wish I could just click my heels." / His smile is like kryptonite to me."	(FLD) An EXPRESSION designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
Apostrophe "O, father! I wish you were here with me to help me out of this conundrum." / Alarm clock, please don’t fail me." / Heaven, help us."	(FLD) A speech or address to a person who is not present or to a personified object
Foreshadowing "I have a bad feeling about this” / By the pricking of my thumb, Something wicked this way comes."	(FLD) a literary device that writers utilize as a means to indicate or hint to readers something that is to follow or appear later in a story.
Hyperbole "I’m so hungry that I could eat a horse." / She loves him more than life itself" / I'm dying of thirst"	(FLD) A boldly overstated or exaggerated statement that adds emphasis without the intention of being literally true
Verbal Irony “She is tolerable but not handsome enough to tempt me.”	(FLD) When the speaker says the opposite of what they mean (sarcasm w/o the attitude)
Dramatic Irony	(FLD) When the audience knows more about the even, situation, or conversation than the characters do
Situational Irony "Cat chasing a ferocious dog"	(FLD) When the exact opposite of what was expected to happen, happens
Understatement "2020 was not the best of the times and also not the worst of the times." / She gained a little weight. It’s not a big deal jumping from Size 8 to 16."	(FLD) When writers or speakers intentionally make a situation seem less important than it really is
Symbolism "red rose–symbolizes love and romance" / four-leaf clover–symbolizes good luck or fortune"	(FLD) The use of symbols in a literary work that stands for or suggests something else; it represents something beyond literal meaning.
Tone	(FLD) Literary device that reflects the writer’s attitude toward the subject matter or audience of a literary work.
Kennings "battle-sweat" = blood / "whale-road" = sea / "Four-Eyes" = Glasses Wearer	(FLD) A two-word phrase that describes an object through metaphors in order to provide a different and richer meaning for that object to an audience.
Alliteration "Peter Piper pecked a pack of pickled peppers. A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked."	(SD) Reflects repetition in two or more nearby words of initial consonant sounds at the BEGINNING of words.
Onomatopoeia "buzz" / "thump" / "rustle" / "Meow" / "Moo"	(SD) A word that sounds like what it refers to or describes.
Assonance "Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy-Days of Summer" / "I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them Sam I Am."	(SD) Repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence.
Consonance "Pitter Patter" / "Paddy's potatoes were prepared to perfection"	(SD) The repetition of the same consonant sounds in a line of text.
Slant Rhyme / "Half Rhyme" “Not any higher stands the Grave For Heroes than for men— Not any nearer for the Child Than numb Three Score and Ten—”	(SD) The rhyming words sound similar; however, they are often not very close to make a complete rhyme.
Internal Rhyme Same Line: “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary," Separate Line: “While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping," End of, and Middle of Line: (Pretty Self Explanatory)	(SD) Poetic device that can be defined as metrical lines in which its middle words and its end words rhyme with one another. It occurs within a single line or a verse.
End Rhyme “A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live That day.”	(SD) Occurs when the last syllables or words in two or more lines rhyme with each other. Comes at the end of two successive lines.
Rhythm	(SD) Literary device that demonstrates the long and short patterns through stressed and unstressed syllables, particularly in verse form. There are 5 types of rhythm. Stressed ( / ) & Unstressed ( x ) syllables. Each unit is called a Foot.
Caesura "The headphone explodes, \|\| breaking the mold"	(SD) A pause for a breath in a poetic line.
Enjambment "April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain."	(SD) A line of poetry carries its idea or thought over to the next line without a grammatical pause.
Meter "To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold Have from the forests shook three summers’ pride,"	(SD) The pattern of beats in a line of poetry. It is a combination of the number of beats and arrangement of stresses.
Iambic Pentameter and Elision "Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?" / da DUM \| da DUM \| da DUM \| da DUM \| da DUM	(SD) A line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable,
Lamb ( x / ) “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”	This is the most commonly used rhythm. It consists of two syllables, the first of which is not stressed, while the second syllable is stressed.
Trochee ( / x ) “Tell me not, in mournful numbers”	A type of poetic foot commonly used in English poetry. It has two syllables, the first of which is strongly stressed, while the second syllable is unstressed.
Spondee ( / / ) “White founts falling in the Courts of the sun”	A poetic foot that has two syllables, which are consecutively stressed.
Dactyl ( / x x ) “This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,” The words “primeval” and “murmuring” show dactyls in this line.	Made up of three syllables. The first syllable is stressed, and the remaining two syllables are not stressed, such as in the word “marvelous.”
Anapest ( x x / ) ” ‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house,”	Total opposites of dactyls. They have three syllables; where the first two syllables are not stressed, and the last syllable is stressed.

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