Midterm Exam

Question 1

Identify the figure of speech in the following line and explain it.
The suits on Wall Street just walked off with most of our savings.

Answer 1

metonymy, the term “businessman” is replaced with the word “suits” which is often associated with businessmen

Question 2

What is the figure of speech in the following sentence?

“Stop being a Grinch and enjoy yourself a little!”

Answer 2

Allusion

Question 3

Identify the literary device: Vivien is very vixen-like and vexing.

Answer 3

Alliteration

Question 4

What is the literary device based on sound in the following sentence?

Why would we want work?

Answer 4

It is an alliteration. More specifically, they are liquids.

Question 5

What is the figure of speech in the following sentence?

“I’m so hungry, I could eat a cow”

Answer 5

Hyperbole

Question 6

Identify the type of rhyme:

I walk up to the place;
I had walked for days

Answer 6

near-rhyme

Question 7

What is the figure of speech used in the following sentence?

“Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.”

Answer 7

Alliteration

Question 8

Identify the figure of speech.

“The moon dances over your good side.”

Answer 8

Personification

Question 9

Identify the sound-related literary device:

The stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes

Answer 9

internal rhyme

Question 10

Identify the following meter: Cannon to right of them

Answer 10

Dactylic dimeter

Question 11

What nonmenclature is appropriate for a 7 foot meter

Answer 11

heptameter

Question 12

What is the sound literary device in the following sentence?

Super silent stupid slithery snakes sliding supersonic slippery slopes.

Answer 12

It is an alliteration of the “s” sound which is present at the beginning of the words, which has a special name called sibilants.
Also consonance would be accepted in regards to the “l” sound in the middle of the words.

Question 13

Identify the figure of speech in these sentences
“Life is eating a grapefruit. First, one breaks its skin; then one takes a few bites to get used to its taste, and finally one starts enjoying its flavor.”

Answer 13

Extended metaphor

Question 14

Identify the figure of speech used in the following sentence: How could she marry a snake like that?”

Answer 14

It is a metaphor, comparing the husband to a snake.

Question 15

Identify the rhyme scheme:

They that in play can do the thing they would,
Having an instinct throned in reason’s place,
–And every perfect action hath the grace
Of indolence or thoughtless hardihood–

Answer 15

A
B
B
A

Question 16

What is the sound-related literary device used in the following sentence?

“The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain”

Answer 16

Internal rhyme and Assonance

Question 17

What is the connotation of the word blue?

Answer 17

Feeling sad, feeling peaceful, rested, serenity

Question 18

Identify the figure of speech

“I would catch a grenade for ya”

Answer 18

Hyperbole

Question 19

Identify the following meter: In the midst of the word he was trying to say.

Answer 19

Anapestic tetrameter

Question 20

Identify the figure of speech:

“Carl had to let go a few of his employees due to a decrease in budget.”

Answer 20

Euphemism

Question 21

What would be the denotation of home?

Answer 21

The place such as a house or apartment where a person lives.

Question 22

Identify the figure of speech

“ This problem is driving me crazy”

Answer 22

Personification (there is also a metaphor, comparing the process of becoming crazy to the process of bring driven somewhere).

Question 23

Identify this sound based literary device:

He struck a streak of bad luck.

Answer 23

Consonance (there is also internal rhyme in here)

Question 24

What is the figure of speech used in the following sentence?

“And a government of the people,
by the people,
for the people,
shall not perish from the Earth.”

Answer 24

Epistrophe

Question 25

Identify the figure of speech: | "She did not take her eyes off the television all day."

Answer 25

Hyperbole

Question 26

Identify the foot in: "for goodbye"

Answer 26

anapest

Question 27

Identify the following figure of speech: " He won ten million dollars, I guess he will be able to buy his coffee tomorrow!"

Answer 27

Understatement

Question 28

True or false: the stress makes the foot.

Answer 28

True

Question 29

Identify the following figure of speech: I used to live in the bright darkness.

Answer 29

Oxymoron

Question 30

What type of irony occurs if "a fire station burns down"?

Answer 30

Situational irony

Question 31

True or false. The following sentence is a simile: "He had a heart of stone."

Answer 31

False

Question 32

Identify the type of rhyme in the following sentence "I could spend hours walking in the flowers".

Answer 32

Internal rhyming

Question 33

What is the figure of speech in the following sentence: Does my sassiness upset you?

Answer 33

Apostrophe

Question 34

Identify the following figure of speech: "Ukraine requires boots on the ground."

Answer 34

Ukraine is a metonymy, because it represents the government, and boots is a synecdoche, because it represents soldiers (a part for the whole).

Question 35

Identify the figure of speech: | "Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky"

Answer 35

Simile

Question 36

Which type of irony is exemplified in this sentence? The police station was robbed yesterday.

Answer 36

situational irony

Question 37

True or false. The following sentence is an anaphora: "Their love will turn out to be a Romeo and Juliet story."

Answer 37

false, it is allusion

Question 38

What type of figure of speech can you find in this sentence: Looking at her son's messy room, Mom says, "Wow you could win an award for cleanliness!"?

Answer 38

Verbal Irony

Question 39

What is the figure of speech used in the following sentence? "Your hair is like hay."

Answer 39

Simile

Question 40

Identify the figure of speech in the following line and explain it. Mary's voice is music to my ears.

Answer 40

metaphor, Mary's voice is being compared to music.

Question 41

Identify the figure of speech in the following line and explain it. David is warm like the sun.

Answer 41

simile, David's warmth is being compared to the sun using the word "like".

Question 42

Identify the figure of speech in the following line and explain it. The car danced across the icy road.

Answer 42

personification, the car is giving the human characteristic of dance

Question 43

Identify the figure of speech in the following line and explain it. We are alone together.

Answer 43

oxymoron, the terms "alone" and "together" contradict each other

Question 44

Identify the figure of speech in the following line and explain it. Audrey is big-boned.

Answer 44

euphemism, the term "big-boned" is used instead of saying "fat" which would be impolite

Question 45

Identify the figure of speech in the following line and explain it. Her smile was a mile wide .

Answer 45

hyperbole, describing the smile as being one mile wide is an exaggeration

Question 46

Identify the figure of speech in the following line and explain it. To the uninitiated, neurophysiology can be a bit of a challenge.

Answer 46

understatement, neurophysiology would be an extremely difficult pursuit for someone who has little to no knowledge on the subject

Question 47

Identify the figure of speech in the following line and explain it. It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.

Answer 47

anaphora, "it was the", is repeated at the beginning of each line to create an emphasis (there is also an epistrophe)

Question 48

Identify the figure of speech in the following line and explain it. See no evil. Hear no evil. Speak no evil.

Answer 48

epistrophe, "no evil" is repeated at the end of each line

Question 49

Identify the figure of speech in the following line and explain it. Oh, nature, thou art my goddess.

Answer 49

apostrophe, the exclamation "oh" and "thou" addresses someone directly within the poem itself (there is also a personification)

Question 50

Identify the figure of speech in the following line and explain it. Chocolate is my Achilles Heel.

Answer 50

allusion, "Achilles Heel" is a reference to Greek mythology (there is also a metaphor comparing chocolate to the heel of Achilles, the only part of his body that was vulnerable).

Question 51

Identify the following figure of speech: "The ocean waved in my direction."

Answer 51

personification

Question 52

What is the figure of speech? My village has been submerged by water.

Answer 52

Hyperbole

Question 53

Identify the type of rhyme: | If you go to jail, then who will pay the bail?

Answer 53

Internal Rhyme

Question 54

What is the sound literary device in the following sentence? Its a plain shame that it rains in Spain

Answer 54

This is an internal rhyme due to the repetition of the "ain" sound

Question 55

Name the meter : | / U / U / U / U

Answer 55

Trochaic Tetrameter

Question 56

Identify the type of rhyme: Today I cough: Because of the bough

Answer 56

Eye rhyme

Question 57

Name the meter : | U U / U U / U U / U U / U U /

Answer 57

Anapestic Pentameter

Question 58

Scan the word (with ba boom) : | eternal

Answer 58

U / U (ba boom ba)

Question 59

What is the figure of speech used in the following sentence? "How are you? You almost died!" "I've been better."

Answer 59

Understatement

Question 60

Scan the word (with ba boom) : | pterodactyl

Answer 60

/ U / U (boom ba boom ba)

Question 61

Identify the figure of speech You looked a bit "under the weather" today. *the person was green and vomited everywhere*

Answer 61

Understatement

Question 62

Identify the sound related literary device: | "I have become comfortably numb"

Answer 62

Internal rhyme