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The Women of Troy - Literary Devices (Identify the technique)

Quiz by Lindsey Dang

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  • Q1
    All they are waiting for now is a following wind;
    Hyperbole
    Nautical metaphor/ Imagery
    Assonance
    Antiphora
    30s
  • Q2
    The most prosperous of cities, home of the rich and fortunate, time to say goodbye! Shining towers and citadels, farewell forever
    Juxtaposition
    Figurative language
    Foreshadowing
    Association
    30s
  • Q3
    By birth Troy’s Kings and Queens, rule nothing now; I was royal by birth, and I married a King
    Emotive language
    Contrast
    Metaphor
    Figurative language
    30s
  • Q4
    Let the wind fill our sail
    Visual imagery
    Hyperbole
    Nautical metaphor
    Euphemism
    30s
  • Q5
    Howl for my children dead
    Hypophora
    Zoomorphism
    Objectification
    Graphic imagery
    30s
  • Q6
    An old woman, dragged as a slave
    Analogy
    Allegory
    Simile
    Metaphor
    30s
  • Q7
    Like a motherbird at her plundered nest (Eliminate the WRONG answer)
    Association
    Connotation
    Simile
    Analogy
    30s
  • Q8
    ‘She is to serve Achilles at his tomb’
    Announcement
    Euphemism
    Assertion
    Chrememorphism
    30s
  • Q9
    These Greeks, for the sake of one woman, and one moment of uncontrollable lust, sent a hunting party to track down Helen, to smoke her out and it cost them tens thousands dead’ (ELIMINATE THE WRONG ANSWER)
    Connotation
    Symbolism
    Juxtaposition
    Repetition
    30s
  • Q10
    These Greeks, they began to die, And they kept on dying. And for what reason?
    Symbolism
    Hypophora
    Metaphor
    Rhetorical question
    30s
  • Q11
    Torches casting puddles of light in the darkened palaces (ELIMINATE THE WRONG ANSWER)
    Symbolism
    Imagery
    Characterisation
    Metaphor
    30s
  • Q12
    To die is better than a life of agony
    Metonymy
    Repetition
    Comparison
    Sensationalism
    30s
  • Q13
    Ten thousand men are dead For one woman, and her hated marriage bed. (ELIMINATE THE WRONG ANSWER)
    Juxtaposition
    Victimisation
    Numerical dichotomy
    Emphasis
    30s
  • Q14
    ‘Butchered like an animal’ ’Butchered by the Greeks’ (Eliminate the WRONG answer)
    Connotation
    Simile
    Euphemism
    Animal Imagery
    30s
  • Q15
    Astyanax’ body, cast Like a stone by the Greeks from the towers of Troy.
    Symbolism
    All of the above
    Vilification
    Simile
    30s

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