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When Iago refers to “the Moor,” he is talking about this character.
Who is Othello?
When Iago suspects Othello of doing his “office” betwixt the sheets, he is talking about this.
What is his suspicion that his wife is having an affair with Othello?
When Iago says he wants to get Cassio’s “place,” he is referring to this rank.
What is lieutenant?
When Iago says Cassio has a “smooth dispose, framed to make women false,” he is suggesting this.
What is that Cassio is a ladies’ man?
At the end of Act 1, Iago says his plan is “engendered.” This could be considered a good synonym for “engendered.”
What is “born” or “created”?
When Shakespeare states “Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade,” he is employing this literary device.
What is personification?
When Shakespeare says “fair from fair,” he is employing this literary device.
What is alliteration?
This is a good synonym for “impediments.”
What is “obstacles”?
A Shakespearean sonnet might also be known by this name.
What is an Elizabethan sonnet?
When Shakespeare suggests that he never writ, nor no man ever loved, this an example of this type of twist.
What is an ironic twist?
When Sidney addresses his sonnets to the Moon, he is employing this particular type of personification.
What is apostrophe?
Sidney’s mention of “that busy archer” is an example of this type of literary device.
What is allusion?
Spenser’s depiction of a huntsman chasing after a deer is a metaphor for this.
What is courting a woman?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning obscured her authorship by saying her sonnets were translated from this language.
What is Portuguese?
Browning’s use of “Grace,” “Right,” and “God” suggests this.
What is her love almost has a religious seriousness?
This is the term for diagramming meter in a poem or song.
What is scansion?
This is the term for a poetic “foot” that features two syllables, one unstressed and one stressed.
What is an iamb?
Ballads generally feature this type of narrator.
What is an anonymous narrator?
This is the number of stressed syllables in the phrase “Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound”.
What is four?
The refrain of a ballad often features these types of syllables – LA LA LA, DA DA DA.
What are nonsense syllables?
“She sells seashells by the seashore” is an example of this sound device.
What is alliteration?
In Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind,” the “white dove” and the “cannon balls” symbolize these contrasting ideas.
What are peace and war?
When Shakespeare talks about a “wandering bark,” it is synecdoche for this.
What is a boat (that is made out of wood)?
Shakespeare uses “sunset fading in the West” as a metaphor (or euphemism) for this.
What is death?
A repeated internal vowel sound – “fleet feet sweep by sleeping geeks.”
What is assonance?
In “Piano Man,” Billy Joel employs this literary devices in phrases like “practicing politics” and “slowly gets stoned.”
What is alliteration?
In “Piano Man,” Billy Joel employs this literary device in the line “And the piano sounds like a carnival.”
What is simile?
In “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall,” Bob Dylan utilizes this type of imagery.
What is apocalyptic (end of the world)?
In “Long Black Veil,” the speaker does not provide an alibi for this reason.
What is he was with his best friend’s wife?
In “All Along the Watchtower,” the joker, the thief and the princes represent these personality molds made famous by Carl Jung.
What are archetypes?
In Othello, Michael Cassio hails from this Italian city-state.
What is Florence?