Literary Terms

Question 1

“While the flapping pigeon-winged books died on the porch…”

Answer 1

Simile and personification

Question 2

“This great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world.”

Answer 2

Metaphor

Question 3

“He hid and sobbed and cried and kept quiet.”

Answer 3

Polysyndeton

Question 4

She was an expert at lip reading from ten years of apprenticeship at Seashell ear thimbles.”

Answer 4

Hyperbole

Question 5

The Mechanical Hound

Answer 5

Paradox

Question 6

“I don’t think its social to get a bunch of people together and then not let them talk.”

Answer 6

Irony

Question 7

“The orange dragon coughed to life.”

Answer 7

Metaphor

Question 8

“A book lit, almost obediently, like a white pigeon in his hands.”

Answer 8

Simile

Question 9

“The parlor families are my family.”

Answer 9

Irony

Question 10

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door.”

Answer 10

Metaphor

Question 11

“The train radio vomitted upon Montag.”

Answer 11

Personification

Question 12

As a fireman, Montag’s life was filled with flame and heat. As a fugitive, now, he is alone and “stands shivering.”

Answer 12

Contrast

Question 13

Montag was “going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapours for supper.”

Answer 13

Hyperbole

Question 14

“After a long time floating on the land and a short time floating in the river.”

Answer 14

Contrast

Question 15

“No, nor a fruitful river in the eye…”

Answer 15

Metaphor

Question 16

“Your bait of falsehood will catch this carp of truth.”

Answer 16

Metaphor

Question 17

“What is he to Hecuba… that he should weep for her?”

Answer 17

Allusion

Question 18

“The morning walks o’er the dew of yon high eastern hill.”

Answer 18

Personification

Question 19

“A little more than kin and less than kind.”

Answer 19

Pun

Question 20

“Thrift… the funeral baked meats did coldly furnish the marriage tables.”

Answer 20

Irony

Question 21

“Each hair to stand on end like quills.”

Answer 21

Simile

Question 22

“These are but wild and whirling words.”

Answer 22

Alliteration

Question 23

“Frailty, thy name is woman!”

Answer 23

Apostrophe

Question 24

“Brevity is the soul of wit… I will be brief.”

Answer 24

Irony

Question 25

“The morn in russet mantle clad, walks o’er the dew of yon high eastern hill.”

Answer 25

Personification

Question 26

“Not so, my lord, I am too much i’ the sun.”

Answer 26

Pun

Question 27

“O, that this too too-solid flesh would melt…”

Answer 27

Metaphor

Question 28

“Tis an unweeded garden, that grows to seed…”

Answer 28

Metaphor

Question 29

“Hyperion to a satyr…”

Answer 29

Allusion

Question 30

“Till then, sit still, my soul!”

Answer 30

Apostrophe

Question 31

“Give every man thine eat but few thy voice.”

Answer 31

Metonymy

Question 32

“For the apparel oft proclaims the man.”

Answer 32

Personification

Question 33

“Borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.”

Answer 33

Personification

Question 34

“I do know, when the blood burns, how prodigal the soul gives the tongue vows.”

Answer 34

Alliteration

Question 35

“To those thorns in her bosom lodge to prick and sting her.”

Answer 35

Metaphor

Question 36

“The time is out of joint; O cursed spite that ever I was born to set it right.”

Answer 36

Rhyme

Question 37

“O Jephthah, judge of Israel, what a treasure hadst thou!”

Answer 37

Allusion

Question 38

“He would drown the stage with tears.”

Answer 38

Hyperbole

Question 39

“I’ll have grounds more relative than this. The play’s the thing wherein I catch the conscience of the king.”

Answer 39

Rhyme