VWO 5 Literary devices practice

Literature
Read through the literary devices list in the front of your reader.
After studying the list, read the following lines and choose the correct literary device
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Literature
Read through the literary devices list in the front of your reader.
After studying the list, read the following lines and choose the correct literary device

Slide 1 - Tekstslide

From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life;
A
repetition
B
assonance
C
alliteration
D
personification

Slide 2 - Quizvraag

If I pass during some nocturnal blackness, mothy and warm,
When the hedgehog travels furtively over the lawn,
A
repetition
B
simile
C
euphemism
D
hyperbole

Slide 3 - Quizvraag

You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it
You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes
A
enjambments
B
personification
C
hyperbole
D
rhetoric question

Slide 4 - Quizvraag

How cruel is the story of Eve,
What responsibility
It has in history.
For misery.
A
consonance
B
metaphor
C
personification
D
sonnet

Slide 5 - Quizvraag

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping

A
alliteration
B
hyperbole
C
enjambments
D
irony

Slide 6 - Quizvraag

you couldn’t catch a chipmunk if all its legs were
broken and it was glued to the palm of your hand.
A
repetition
B
consonance
C
irony
D
hyperbole

Slide 7 - Quizvraag

A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.
A
simile
B
metaphor
C
hyperbole
D
understatement

Slide 8 - Quizvraag

we are for eachother: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life’s not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis
A
simile
B
metaphor
C
irony
D
hyperbole

Slide 9 - Quizvraag

And so today, my world it smiles
Your hand in mine, we walk the miles,
A
personification
B
repetition
C
simile
D
understatement

Slide 10 - Quizvraag

“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”
A
simile
B
metaphor
C
understatement
D
hyperbole

Slide 11 - Quizvraag

Love is a song that never ends
One simple theme repeating
Like the voice of a heavenly choir
Love’s sweet music flows on
A
metaphor
B
simile
C
hyperboly
D
irony

Slide 12 - Quizvraag

Write down your own example of:
Understatement

Slide 13 - Open vraag

Describe in your own words:
Rhetoric question

Slide 14 - Open vraag

Explain in your own words:
Imagery

Slide 15 - Open vraag

Explain what this metaphor means:
"He’s buried in a sea of paperwork."

Slide 16 - Open vraag

Explain the simile in your own words:
"Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on."

Slide 17 - Open vraag

The White House decided against this.
A
Metaphor
B
Metonymia
C
Enumeration
D
Irony

Slide 18 - Quizvraag

Hamlet: ''I must be cruel, only to be kind''
A
Oxymoron
B
Assonance
C
Paradox
D
Pun

Slide 19 - Quizvraag

“Parting is such sweet sorrow.”
A
Pun
B
Alliteration
C
Oxymoron
D
Paradox

Slide 20 - Quizvraag

“I think so,” said Professor McGonagall dryly, “we teachers are rather good at magic, you know.”
A
Irony
B
Sarcasm
C
Understatement
D
Euphemism

Slide 21 - Quizvraag

“shuffle off as mortal coil”
A
sarcasme
B
hyperbole
C
euphemism
D
understatement

Slide 22 - Quizvraag