Pericles Prince Of Tyre Literary Devices Quiz

What does the repeated motif of storms symbolize throughout the play?

What device is used in the recurring imagery of light and darkness?

What theme is reinforced by repeated sea voyages and storms?

What device frames the entire play as a tale of endurance and divine will?

What device is evident when Pericles’s shipwreck mirrors his spiritual renewal?

What literary device is seen in the contrast between Dionyza and Marina?

What is the dominant literary genre of Pericles, Prince of Tyre?

What literary device is used in the riddle that conceals Antiochus’s sin?

What device is used when Diana appears in Pericles’s dream?

What device is used when Thaisa’s “death” precedes her later revival?

What device is shown when Thaisa is revived from her coffin at sea?

What is represented through Antioch as a corrupt court?

What is the function of Marina’s purity within the play’s moral framework?

What literary form does Gower’s speech most closely resemble?

What literary device dominates Pericles’s speeches about fate?

What is the primary tone created by Pericles’s long silences and laments?

When Pericles praises the gods after his reunion, what device is central?

What device is employed when Gower appears to narrate the play?

What literary device shapes the play’s episodic structure?

What device is present in the moral justice served to Cleon and Dionyza?

When Pericles calls the sea his “enemy and friend,” what device is used?

What narrative device connects the many journeys of Pericles?

What device is used in Marina’s name, meaning “of the sea”?

What literary technique underpins the miraculous reunions in the final act?

What does the image of the sea chest symbolize?

What literary style blends with Shakespeare’s verse throughout the play?

What effect does Gower’s closing speech create?

What is achieved through Gower’s archaic language style?

What device is present in Gower’s direct addresses to the audience?

What device drives the audience’s knowledge of Thaisa’s survival before Pericles learns it?