inversion
What device is used in the line, “But harder grows the more I her entreat,” in Sonnet 30 by Spenser?
personification
What device is used in the line, “But came the tide, and made my pains his prey,” in Sonnet 75 by Spenser?
double entendre
What device is used in the line, “‘Vain man,’ said she, ‘that doest in vain assay’,” in Sonnet 75 by Spenser?
personification
What device is used in the line, “And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries” in Sonnet 29 by Shakespeare?
parallelism
What device is used in the line, “Desiring this man’s art, and that man’s scope” in Sonnet 29 by Shakespeare?
simile
What device is used in the line, “Like to the lark at the break of day arising” in Sonnet 29 by Shakespeare?
metaphor
What device is used in the line, “For thy sweet love remember’d such wealth brings” in Sonnet 29 by Shakespeare?
metaphor, personification
What devices are used in the lines, “Oh no! It(love) is an ever-fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken” in Sonnet 116 by Shakespeare?
metaphor
What device is used in the line, “It(love) is the star to every wandering bark” in Sonnet 116 by Shakespeare?
personification, synechdoche
What devices are used in the line, “Love’s not Time’s fool, through rosy lips and cheeks” in Sonnet 116 by Shakespeare?
allusion (to the grim reaper)
What device is used in the line, “Within the bending sickle’s compass come” in Sonnet 116 by Shakespeare?
simile
What device is used in the line, “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” in Sonnet 130 by Shakespeare?
metaphor
What device is used in the line, “If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun” in Sonnet 130 by Shakespeare?
allusion (to Medusa)
What device is used in the line, “If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head” in Sonnet 130 by Shakespeare?
inversion
What device is used in the line, “But no such roses see I in her cheeks” in Sonnet 130 by Shakespeare?
personification
What device is used in the lines, “And this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying” in To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick?
metaphor
What device is used in the lines, “The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun” in To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick?
carpe diem
The line, “Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,” in To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick contains an example of what?
allusion (to Helios, the sun god)
What device is used in the lines, “The sooner will his race be run and nearer he’s to setting” in To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick?
personification
What device is used in the line, “Times still succeed the former” in To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick?
spondee (adj: spondaic)
a foot in which both syllables are accented
pyrrhic
a foot in which both syllables are unstressed
extrametrical syllable
a syllable added at the beginning or end of a line
truncation syllable
the omission of an unaccented syllable at either end of a line
metrical variation
when poets choose to deliberately vary a metrical pattern within a line or lines of a verse
idyllic
perfect
personification, apostrophe (speaking to death)
What devices are used in the line, “Death be not proud, though some have called thee” in Death Be Not Proud by John Donne?
paradox
What device is used in the line, “Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me” in Death Be Not Proud by John Donne?
metaphor (for life)
What device is used in the line, “One short sleep past, we wake eternally” in Death Be Not Proud by John Donne?
paradox
What device is used in the line, “And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die” in Death Be Not Proud by John Donne?
eternal life (the soul will live forever)
What is the answer to the paradox that death will die in Death Be Not Proud by John Donne?
