Advanced English 10 Test Review

She’s not a bad singer and Hitler was no angel are examples of what literary device?

Litotes – A type of understatement in which an idea is expressed by negating its opposite.

Explain how this is a litotes: That is no laughing matter.

Synecdoche or metonymy? (There will be five examples)

1. Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. (Julius Caesar)

Metonymy: Ears = audience’s attention

2. Check out my set of wheels.

Synecdoche: Wheels is a part of a car.

3. Hey man! Nice threads.

Synecdoche: Threads is a part of clothing.

4. Hollywood needs to produce more movies where minorities play major roles.

Metonymy: Hollywood = American film industry

5.It was the town’s mechanic, not the rich lawyer, who had the nicest ride.

Metonymy: Ride = car

Satire or Not? 1. To Kill a Mockingbird (no) 2. Animal Farm (yes) 3. “Harrison Bergeron” (yes) 4. Antigone (no)

Satire A humorous work (poem, play, novel, television show, movie, etc.) that points out human weakness in order to bring about change.

What part of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is satirical? 1. Humorous (A man playing a girl and the queen of the fairies in love with an ass) 2. Makes a commentary (on the theatre and on love) 3. To bring about change

Antigone versus Shakespeare Ancient Greece (400 B.C) England (late 1600’s) Costumes: Robes/Elevated shoes/ Masks Elizabethan playwright Theater Built into a hill Performed during daylight No action on stage No women on stage Theban Trilogy Lots of action/minimal special effects 1. Oedipus the King 2. Oedipus at Colonus 3. Antigone

Name the literary device… What the hammer? What the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? What dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp? The Tyger William Blake

Anaphora: Repetition of “what” at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences. “We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender.”

Name the literary device… For the time being, it is necessary to make an adjustment in our rations. (Orwell Animal Farm)

Euphemism The term euphemism refers to polite, indirect expressions which replace words and phrases considered harsh and impolite or which suggest something unpleasant. i.e. Grandma kicked the bucket

Name the literary device… “And Joshua, and all of Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had.”

Polysyndeton is a stylistic device in which several coordinating conjunctions (“and”, “or”, “but” and “nor”) are used in succession in order to achieve an artistic effect.

Frozen silence and warm colors Name the literary device… Frozen silence and warm colors

Synesthesia Describing one kind of sensation in terms of another. i.e. Now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music (Great Gatsby) The color yellow (sight) describes music (sound)