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Literary Terms Review Practice
1. _____You are running late for work, so you decide you can avoid the rush hour traffic by taking the very bumpy Tickle Belly Road because no one is ever on it. However, of course, today it is full of cars! This is . . .
A.situational ironyC.verbal irony
B.dramatic ironyD.hyperbole
2. _____“The spicy Doritos were calling my name!” is an example of
A.a metaphorC.irony
B.personificationD.hyperbole
3. _____“The kids were bouncing off the walls after they had sugar” isan example of
A.personificationC.an idiom
B.a metaphorD.onomatopoeia
4. _____ Describing something as being “very Katniss” makes a(n)
______to Suzanne Collins’s famous Hunger Games trilogy.
A.illusionC.metaphor
B.allusionD.personification
5. _____Imagery is
A. an exaggeration C. when the unexpected occurs
B. giving objects human qualities D. using words that appeal to the senses
6._____“I could sleep for a year!” is an example of
A.a metaphorC.a simile
B.personificationD.a hyperbole
7._____Which type of poem tells a story?
A.a sonnetC.a ballad
B.a narrativeD.none of the above
“Nothing Gold Can Stay”
by Robert Frost (1923)
beats per line rhyme scheme
1Nature’s first green is gold,______
2Her hardest hue to hold.______
3Her early leaf’s a flower; ______
4But only so an hour.______
5Then leaf subsides to leaf.______
6So Eden sank to grief,______
7So dawn goes down to day.______
8Nothing gold can stay.______
“Slow Dance”
Anonymous
1Have you ever watched kids on a merry-go-round,______
2or listened to the rain slapping on the ground?______
3Ever followed a butterfly’s erratic flight?______
4Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?______
5You better slow down . . .______
6Don’t dance so fast.______
7Time is short.______
8The music won’t last.______
Sonnet 18: “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?”
By William Shakespeare
1 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? _____
2 Thou art more lovely and more temperate: _____
3 Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, _____
4 And summer’s lease hath all too short a date; _____
5 Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, _____
6 And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; _____
7 And every fair from fair sometime declines, _____
8 By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;_____
9 But thy eternal summer shall not fade, _____
10 Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st; _____
11 Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade, _____
12 When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st: _____
13 So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, _____
14 So long lives this, and this gives life to thee._____Sonnet XVIII: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?
Sonnet XVIII: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Sonnet XVIII: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?
Sonnet XVIII: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.