The Women of Troy - Literary Devices (Identify the technique)
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- Q1All they are waiting for now is a following wind;HyperboleNautical metaphor/ ImageryAssonanceAntiphora30s
- Q2The most prosperous of cities, home of the rich and fortunate, time to say goodbye! Shining towers and citadels, farewell foreverJuxtapositionFigurative languageForeshadowingAssociation30s
- Q3By birth Troy’s Kings and Queens, rule nothing now; I was royal by birth, and I married a KingEmotive languageContrastMetaphorFigurative language30s
- Q4Let the wind fill our sailVisual imageryHyperboleNautical metaphorEuphemism30s
- Q5Howl for my children deadHypophoraZoomorphismObjectificationGraphic imagery30s
- Q6An old woman, dragged as a slaveAnalogyAllegorySimileMetaphor30s
- Q7Like a motherbird at her plundered nest (Eliminate the WRONG answer)AssociationConnotationSimileAnalogy30s
- Q8‘She is to serve Achilles at his tomb’AnnouncementEuphemismAssertionChrememorphism30s
- Q9These 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)ConnotationSymbolismJuxtapositionRepetition30s
- Q10These Greeks, they began to die, And they kept on dying. And for what reason?SymbolismHypophoraMetaphorRhetorical question30s
- Q11Torches casting puddles of light in the darkened palaces (ELIMINATE THE WRONG ANSWER)SymbolismImageryCharacterisationMetaphor30s
- Q12To die is better than a life of agonyMetonymyRepetitionComparisonSensationalism30s
- Q13Ten thousand men are dead For one woman, and her hated marriage bed. (ELIMINATE THE WRONG ANSWER)JuxtapositionVictimisationNumerical dichotomyEmphasis30s
- Q14‘Butchered like an animal’ ’Butchered by the Greeks’ (Eliminate the WRONG answer)ConnotationSimileEuphemismAnimal Imagery30s
- Q15Astyanax’ body, cast Like a stone by the Greeks from the towers of Troy.SymbolismAll of the aboveVilificationSimile30s