Literary Devices
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Plots and Places
Conflict
Microfction
100
An exchange of words between characters that can help to show character, setting, or plot.
What is dialogue?
100
The literary device in the following passage from Langston Hughes' "Thank You, Ma’am"
"Then she reached down, picked the boy up by his shirt front, and shook him until his teeth rattled".
What is onomatopoeia or imagery?
100
The setting in Alison Lohans, "The Michelle I Know"?
What is a hospital?
100
This conflict occurs a character encounters what they think is a ghost.
What is person vs. supernatural?
100
The point of view in this story.
What is first person?
200
A figure of speech that compares two different things by saying one thing is the other.
What is a metaphor?
200
The dialogue in Langston Hughes' "Thank You Ma'am" reveals this to the readers.
What is various answers?
200
Almost all stories and novels follow a similar plot diagram. Name all the parts of the plot diagram
What is Introduction/Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, Conclusion/Denouement?
200
A conflict where someone is trying to make a decision.
What is person vs. self?
200
The characters in this story.
What are the narrator and the photo-taker?
300
The type of figurative language in which non-human things are described as having human attributes.
What is personification?
300
The windchimes symbolize this in "The Jade Peony."
What is Grandmama after death?
300
An interruption of a narrative to show an episode that happened before that particular point in the story.
What is a flashback?
300
The type conflict present in this passage of, "The Jade Peony"?
"My two older teenage brothers and my sister, Liang, age 14, were embarrassed by my parents’ behavior. What would all the white people in Vancouver think of us? We were Canadians now, Chinese-Canadians, a hyphenated reality that my parents could never accept."
What is person vs. person or person vs. society?
300
The conflict in this story.
What is person vs. unknown?
400
Descriptive writing related to the 5 senses.
What is imagery?
400
When using descriptive writing for a character specifically, an author focuses on several details on these. Name 3.
What is physical appearance, facial expressions, clothing, gestures/body movements, and/or voice?
400
This is when Roger cannot bring himself to say, "Thank you, Ma'am."
What is the ending of "Thank you, Ma'am."
400
The significance of the ending in "A Handful of Dates" when the narrator recalls, "Then, without knowing why, I put my finger into my throat and spewed up the dates I'd eaten."
What is rejecting his grandfather?
400
The word count that qualifies a story as microfiction.
What are 100-300 words?
500
The story and the literary device in: "The entire back of her neck felt like one giant pillow crease.”
What is a simile in "The Michelle I Know"?
500
The point-of-view in "A Handful of Dates."
What is the first person?
500
What is the name of the dialect that Roger and Ms. Jones speak?
What is African American Vernacular English (AAVE)?
500
A conflict where someone feels different or outside of others around them. 
What is person vs. society?
500
A common element in microfiction.
What is a twist ending? Or, other answers.