Literary Devices One
When words are used to suggest the opposite of the literal meaning.
What is Verbal Irony?
An appeal to your emotions uses this rhetorical device.
What is Pathos?
A literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.
what is Foreshadowing?
Occurs when the audience expects something to happen, but then something else happens instead.
What is Situational Irony?
An exaggeration.
What is Hyperbole?
A form of figurative language in which something that is not human is given human characteristics.
What is Personification?
An author’s attitude toward his or her subject and audience.
What is Tone?
The use of a word in its traditional definition, like from the DICTIONary.
What is Denotative Diction?
The use of a word that uses a meaning based on the CONtext of the words around it.
What is Conotative Diction?
When the audience knows something the characters do not.
What is Dramatic Irony?
The writer or speaker refers either directly or indirectly to a person, event, or thing in history or to a work of art or literature. (Biblical, Classical, Historical)
What is Allusion?
Anything that appears on the surface to be one thing, yet represents something else and carries a hidden, deeper meaning.
What is Symbolism?
What is a logos?
An appeal to credibility uses this rhetorical device. A celebrity holding a product adds this rhetorical appeal to the ad.
What is a ethos?
"A cool breeze carried carnival music and the aroma of popcorn my way. Just over the rise the lights blinked in a million colors." This appeal to the senses and the mental picture are this literary device. There are 5 types of this.
What is a imagery?
When the first letters of words are the same as in: She shook the shears at the sheep.
What is alliteration?
A character who contrasts with another character - usually the protagonist— to highlight particular qualities of the other character.
What is Foil?
The feeling a reader gets when reading a piece of literature.
What is Mood?
A figure of speech that makes a comparison using "like" or "as."
What is Simile?
A figure of speech that compares two things that are unrelated, but which share some common characteristics.
What is Metaphor?
Words that imitate sounds.
What is Onomatopoeia?
When you compare someone to a summer's day, you're using this literary device.
What is Analogy?
The act of placing two or more things—such as objects, ideas, or characters—side by side to highlight their differences or contrasting qualities.
What is juxtaposition?
a figure of speech where a part of something represents the whole, or the whole represents a part;for example,"Nice Wheels"
What is Synecdoche?
This is the classroom number.
What is SH203?