the quotes Flashcards
learn them well (24 cards)
What literary device is used in the quote ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’?
Simile
In ‘The waves beside them danced,’ what literary device is being employed?
Personification
Identify the literary device in the phrase ‘I gazed and gazed - …’
Alliteration
What does the phrase ‘Which is the bliss of solitude’ illustrate?
Juxtaposition
What literary technique is highlighted by the phrase ‘A rat-grey fungus, …’?
Word choice
In ‘Each year I’d hope they’d keep, knew they would not,’ what is the literary device used?
Paradox
Identify the literary device in ‘We hoarded the fresh berries in the byre.’
Assonance
What metaphor is present in the line ‘summers blood was in it’?
Metaphor
What literary device is represented by ‘And big jim evans saying it was a hard blow’?
Euphemism
What does ‘As mother held my hand’ symbolize?
Symbol of support
In the phrase ‘He had always taken funerals in his stride,’ what literary device is being used?
Allusion
Identify the literary device in ‘The baby cooed and rocked the pram.’
Metonym
What literary technique is shown by the repetition in ‘But we shouted ‘’good day! Good day!’’?
Repetition
In the line ‘.. gave a ‘’caw!’’ and flew off,’ what literary device is used?
Onomatopoeia
What does ‘My grandfather’s whip tapped his hat’ symbolize?
Symbol of respect
What literary device is present in ‘When we came to hustler hill’?
Alliteration
What does ‘How love fled’ illustrate in terms of literary devices?
Personification
What does ‘When you are old and grey and full of sleep’ foreshadow?
Foreshadowing
What literary device is used in ‘And loved your beauty with love false or true’?
Juxtaposition
Identify the imagery in ‘And nodding by the fire.’
Visual and kinaesthetic imagery
What metaphor is used in ‘Books are door-shaped’?
Metaphor
What does ‘Across oceans’ exemplify?
Hyperbole
In the line ‘And I step,’ what type of imagery is used?
Kinaesthetic imagery
Identify the type of imagery in ‘In a clear glass cabinet.’
Visual imagery
