Literary Devices
This technique is often used in poetry and results in two or more words having the same ending sound
What is rhyming
This is the name of the process by which plants turn sunlight into food and energy
What is photosynthesis
He wrote many famous plays including Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet, and MacBeth
Who is Shakespeare?
This is the sequence of events, usually rising action l
What is a plot?
The first major European conflict of the 20th Century, starting in 1916 going to 1919
What is World War I?
Making a comparison by saying one thing is another, as in, "My boyfriend is a wild animal!"
What is a metaphor?
Water does this at 0 degrees Celsius
What is freeze?
In this story, "Lamb for Slaughter," Roland Dahl wrote about a pregnant wife who kills her cheating husband with this
What is a frozen leg of lamb?
What is the narrator?
The largest war ever
What is World War II?
Making a comparison between two things by using "like" or "as:" Her breath smelled like the biomedical waste at Mission Hospital.""
What is a simile?
Scientists believe this event killed the dinosaurs and many of earth's life at the time
What is a meteor strike?
In this story, people in a German village are being cheated because this device is rigged against them until one small boy figures it out
What is a scale?
The most exciting part of a story where the conflict must be confronted
What is the climax?
A period of European renewal and progress beginning in the late 1300s
What is the Renaissance?
A word that sounds like the action it is describing.
What is Onomatopoeia?
This is the approximate amount of time it takes for the Earth to make one full revolution around the sun.
What is one year/
In this story, a condemned man must choose between two doors where he will die if he chooses one; if he chooses the other one, this will happen.
He'll be forced to marry a beautiful woman he does not know.
The time, place, and mood of the story
What is the setting?
A period of European history marked by Catholic Church dominance, the plague, and feudalism
What are the Middle Ages or the Medieval period?
An overstatement or exaggeration: My girlfriend is the most beautiful woman in the world.
What is hyperbole?
Charles Darwin is credited with publishing the research proving that all life changes and adapts to its environment at the biological level.
What is evolution?
He is the love child of Zeus; naming him after Zeus's wife does not keep her from making his life difficult.
Who is Hercules?
Examples include: Man vs Man; Man vs Nature; Man vs. Himself
What is conflict?
What is Russia