Section 5: Literary Techniques: Match each question to an answer (only one answe

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Section 5: Literary Techniques: Match each question to an answer (only one answer per question) 41. Which of the following is an example of a simile? 42. Which of the following is an example of a metaphor? 43. Which of the following would be considered personification? 44. Which of the following demonstrates a 1st person narrator? 45. Which of the following is an example of parallelism? 46. Which of the following provides characterization? 47. Which of the following is an example of a rhyming couplet? 48. Which of the following features alliteration? 49. Which of the following is a biblical allusion? 50. Which of the following contains a classical allusion? A. [W]hich apron they wear just before ‘em, as Adam and Eve did the fig leaves (Behn). B. A place there is diffusing rivers four, / With flowers ambrosial decked (Dracontius 1-2) C. The gods who won Olympus as a dwelling-place / deathless, made first of mortals a Golden Race (Hesiod 1-2) D. As when a prowling wolf, whom hunger drives to seek new haunt for prey [. . .] Leaps o’er the fence with ease into the fold (Milton 4: 181-5). E. Now gentle gales [. . .] dispense / Native perfumes and whisper whence they stole / Those balmy spoils (Milton 4: 154-157). F. I was myself an eye-witness to a great part of what you will find here here set down (Behn). G. He knew almost as much as if he had read much: he had heard of and admired the Romans: he had heard of the late Civil Wars in England, and the deplorable death of our great monarch, and would discourse of it with all the sense and abhorrence of the injustice imaginable (Behn). H. Never did a ship manned by Argive rowers reach here, / Nor a shameless Colchian set foot on this soil, / No Phoenician sailors swing their yardarms this way, / Nor did the long-suffering crew of Ulysses (Horace 19-22). [My note: “Ulysses” is the Roman name for the Greek hero “Odysseus”] I. And the name of the first is Pison … / And the gold of that land is good … / And the name of the second river is Gihon … / And the name of the third river is Hiddekel (Genesis 2: 11-14) J. So clomb this first grand thief into God’s fold; / So since into his church lewd hirelings climb (Milton 9: 190-191) [My note: “Clomb” = “Climbed”; “Fold” = A pen for holding sheep]

Explanation / Answer

41.  Simile- comparing two things using the words like or as.

Here the ans is G.

G. He knew almost as much as if he had read much: he had heard of and admired the Romans: he had heard of the late Civil Wars in England, and the deplorable death of our great monarch, and would discourse of it with all the sense and abhorrence of the injustice imaginable (Behn).

42. Ans: D

As when a prowling wolf, whom hunger drives to seek new haunt for prey [. . .] Leaps o’er the fence with ease into the fold (Milton 4: 181-5).

43. C

The gods who won Olympus as a dwelling-place / deathless, made first of mortals a Golden Race (Hesiod 1-2)

44. F

I was myself an eye-witness to a great part of what you will find here here set down (Behn).

45. H

Never did a ship manned by Argive rowers reach here, / Nor a shameless Colchian set foot on this soil, / No Phoenician sailors swing their yardarms this way, / Nor did the long-suffering crew of Ulysses (Horace 19-22).

46. I

And the name of the first is Pison … / And the gold of that land is good … / And the name of the second river is Gihon … / And the name of the third river is Hiddekel (Genesis 2: 11-14)

47. E

Now gentle gales [. . .] dispense / Native perfumes and whisper whence they stole / Those balmy spoils (Milton 4: 154-157).

48. J

So clomb this first grand thief into God’s fold; / So since into his church lewd hirelings climb (Milton 9: 190-191)

49. A

Which apron they wear just before ‘em, as Adam and Eve did the fig leaves (Behn).

50. B

A place there is diffusing rivers four, / With flowers ambrosial decked (Dracontius 1-2)

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