Literary Devices
Provides vivid, detailed descriptions and communicates a specific perception of an object or scene to a reader.
What is imagery?
Comparing something by using the words like or as.
What is a Simile?
List the different points of view
1st and 2nd point of view, 3rd person limited and omniscient
Salva is from here
What is Southern Sudan?
Mr. A's favorite basketball team?
What is the New York Knicks?
Used to add suspense and anticipation by adding plot twist into a plotline.
What is a cliffhanger?
A statement in which two objects, often unrelated, are compared to each other.
What is a Metaphor?
Uses the pronouns “I,” “me,” “we,” and “us,” in order to tell a story from the narrator's perspective
What is First Person Point of View?
This is how often Nya walks to get water from the local pond for her family.
What is twice daily?
What is Athletic talent?
A literary device wherein the author depicts the occurrence of specific events to the reader, which have taken place before the present time the narration is following.
What is Flashback?
A situation in which there is a contrast between expectation and reality.
What is irony?
A point of view where the narrator knows all the thoughts, actions, and feelings of all characters.
What is third person omniscient?
Salva is this many years old
This was the year Mr. A graduated from Bay
What is 2015?
The use of words or phrases and hints that set the stage for a story to unfold and give the reader a hint of something that is going to happen without revealing the story or spoiling the suspense.
What is foreshadowing?
Refers to a set expression or a phrase comprising of two or more words, the expression is not interpreted literally.
What is an Idiom?
The reader is part of the story. The narrator describes the reader's actions, thoughts, and background using "you."
What is second person point of view?
The tribe Salva is from
What is the Dinka tribe?
Name this song!
What is Do Not Disturb?
Using an object or action that means something more than its literal meaning
What is symbolism?
A figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect; Ex: Seriously Funny.
What is Oxymoron?
The narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character.
What is third person limited?
This is the point of view A long Walk to Water is written in
What is third person limited?
What is Mr. A's favorite artists?
What is A boogie, Lil Tjay, and Rod Wave?