Julius Caesar Multiple Choice & Literary Elements

a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings.

"the pigs were a squeal

• simile

• personification

• allegory

• pun

• oxymoron

the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.

• anaphora

• metaphor

• paradox

• rhetorical shift

• allegory

a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money)

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• pun

• parallel structure

a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses)

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• pun

• anachronism

attribution of personal qualities

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• pun

• anachronism

an implied or indirect reference especially in literature

• simile

• allusion

• paradox

• blank verse

• inversion

the addressing of a usually absent person or a usually personified thing rhetorically

• metaphor

• allusion

• apostrophe

• simile

• hyperbole

to stain or defile morally

• taunt

• soil

• perfect

• ridicule

a crowd or crowded condition

• bulwark

• illumination

• benediction

• press

“Truly, sir, all that I live by is the awl:”

• simile

• personification

• allegory

• pun

• oxymoron