Why does Shakespeare liken a dysfunctional state to a body in which the organs rebel against each other? The Coriolanus Literary Devices Quiz will test your knowledge of personification and dramatic irony. Pay attention to the rhetorical devices used to frame the class war in these first chapters.
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Coriolanus Literary Devices Quiz Questions
- What literary device is used when Menenius tells the fable of the body and the belly?
- What device is employed when Coriolanus is called “the man without friends”?
- When the citizens are described as a “many-headed multitude,” Shakespeare uses what device?
- What literary device dominates Volumnia’s speeches about honor and wounds?
- Coriolanus saying “I banish you” to Rome instead of the other way around is an example of what?
- What device does Shakespeare use when Coriolanus’s pride foreshadows his downfall?
- When the tribunes manipulate the crowd’s emotions, what rhetorical device do they employ?
- What device is used in Coriolanus’s line “Would the nobility lay aside their ruth”?
- When Coriolanus is compared to a “lion that scorns the hunter,” what device is this?
- What figure of speech is used in “He’s a disease that must be cut away”?
- When Volumnia calls wounds “honorable scars,” what device is used?
- What device appears in Shakespeare’s repetition of “boy! boy!” by Aufidius to mock Coriolanus?
- The contrast between Coriolanus’s valor and his political downfall exemplifies what device?
- When Coriolanus speaks to himself before entering Antium, Shakespeare uses what device?
- The citizens’ shifting loyalties throughout the play illustrate what literary device?
- When Volumnia says, “If my son were my husband,” what device is this?
- The use of elevated language to express martial pride throughout the play reflects what technique?
- The line “My gracious silence, hail!” spoken by Coriolanus to Virgilia uses what device?
- The citizens calling Coriolanus “one of us” after hating him shows what device?
- The Volscians’ betrayal of Coriolanus mirrors Rome’s rejection of him through what device?
- When Coriolanus refuses flattery, Shakespeare uses this to highlight what device?
- The frequent use of “Rome” as a living entity is an example of what?
- When Coriolanus’s silence speaks louder than his words, what device is this?
- The phrase “a world elsewhere” at Coriolanus’s exile reflects what literary device?
- What device is used in the citizens’ contradictory demands for peace and war?
- When Aufidius calls Coriolanus “our best steel tempered,” what is Shakespeare using?
- The line “As if the world were Rome” is an example of what device?
- When Coriolanus’s death fulfills the audience’s expectation of his pride’s ruin, it demonstrates what device?
- The recurring images of wounds and blood throughout the play represent what device?
- The line “O mother, mother!” before his death exemplifies what emotional device?