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3. 100 200 400 300 400 Poetry PuzzlersSyntax Struggles Go Figure Name that Allusion 300 200 400 200 100 500 100

4. Row 1, Col 1 In “To Helen,” Edgar Allan Poe praises Sarah Helen Whitman, comparing her beauty to that of Helen of Troy, utilizing this device. What is allusion?

5. 1,2 “The Sun Rising” by John Donne Busy old fool, unruly sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains call on us? What is apostrophe?

6. 1,3 And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride. The repetition of the long “i” sound creates this. What is assonance?

7. 1,4 Poetry composed of either rhymed or unrhymed lines that have no set meter. What is free verse?

8. 1,5 “ I heard a fly buzz when I died.” What is onomatopoeia?

9. 2,1 “Let the whitefolks have their money and power and segregation and sarcasm and big houses and schools and lawns like carpets, and books, and mostly—mostly—let them have their whiteness." What is polysyndeton?

10. 2,2 “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.” What is anaphora?

11. 2,3 “In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning” What is ayndeton?

12. 2,4 What is anaphora? “But yet in vain thou hast my ruin sought ; In vain thou madest me to vain things aspire ; In vain thou kindlest all thy smoky fire…”

13. 2,5 The TWO syntax features in this passage: "We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender... ” What is asyndeton and anaphora?

14. 3,1 What is personification? “The sycamore leaves whispered in a little night breeze”

15. 3,2 What is a simile? “On the sand banks the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray sculptured stones.”

16. 3,3 What is a simile? “The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire…”

17. 3,4 What is a hyperbole? “Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no fambly. They don't belong no place” (13).

18. 3, 5 What is a metaphor? Well, you keep away from her, cause she's a rattrap if I ever seen one” (32).

19. 4,1 The warrior woman who fought in the place of her father in the novel by the same name. Who is Fa Mu Lan?

20. 4,2 What is the Last Supper? Daisy and Tom were sitting opposite each other at the kitchen table with a plate of cold fried chicken between them and two bottles of ale. He was talking intently across the table at her and in his earnestness his hand had fallen upon and covered her own.

21. 4,3 What is Christ carrying the cross? “Gatsby shouldered the mattress and started for the pool. Once he stopped and shifted it a little, and the chauffeur asked him if he needed help, but he shook his head and in a moment disappeared among the yellowing trees.”

22. 4,4 Daisy’s voice is like “a deathless song” that draws men in and in Gatsby’s case, leads them to their own destruction. What are the sirens in The Odyssey?

23. 4,4 “Only the tops of the Gabilan Mountains flamed with the light of the sun that had gone from the valley. A water snake slipped along on the pool, its head held up like a little periscope.” What is the Garden of Eden?

24. 4,5 Beneatha: Thirty pieces and not a coin less! What is the price of Judas’s betrayal of Christ?