Literary Devices
Narrative Elements
Poetry!!!
100
Focuses readers' attention on a particular section of text. These sounds create rhythm and mood and can have particular connotations. For example, repetition of the "s" sound often suggests a snake-like quality, implying slyness and danger, and the repetition of "h" often suggests a calm and soothing feeling.
What is why an author would use alliteration?
100
This influences the plot and characters in a story is important to help learners understand and respond to literary texts. When a learner considers this, he or she gains insight into the underlying foundation or backdrop of a story thus giving deeper meaning to the whole story.
What is the setting?
100
a form of poetry that originated in Europe, this 14 line poem whose name means "little song" will turn out to be the easiest to analyze if you recognize the structure.
What is a sonnet?
200
helps to organize ideas, making a text or speech easier to understand. This can also create a satisfying rhythm in the language an author uses.
What is parallel structure?
200
VIDEO JEOPARDY!!!!!!! this clip in "Ratatoille" is an example of this:
What is flashback?
200
With this form of poetry, the poet is given more license to express and, unrestrained by traditional bounds, has more control over the development of the poem. This could allow for a more spontaneous and essentially individualizing factor.
What is free verse?
300
Works best for sonnets, free-style poems, blank verse and ballad style poetry. Bringing the reader's eye to the next line without interruption of the thought flow enhances the readers' understanding and appreciation of both the meaning and the artistry of the poem. The result is an emotional naturalism. Another usage is in alluding to taboo words
What is why an author would use enjambment?
300
to create suspense and intrigue in the audience; "Cask of Amantillado" and "Gift of the Magi" used it very well
What is why an author would use irony?
300
The unique structure of this type of poem can be an indication of distress in and of itself, or serve to echo and enhance the subject matter that it orders. It may also create several layers of tension within the poem, due to its simultaneous appeal to a strict order and emotional complexity.
What is the effects of a sestina?
400
Authors can use this to make their audience stop and think about what has just been said, or to emphasize a central idea. The audience's role in realizing the difference between what is said and what is normal or expected is essential to the successful use of this device.
What is why an author would use irony?
400
This element adds dramatic tension to a story by building anticipation about what might happen next. Authors use this to create suspense or to convey information that helps readers understand what comes later. This can make extraordinary, even fanciful events seem more believable.
What is why an author would use foreshadowing?
400
First used by Dante to suggest the holy Trinity, this form of poetry is a three-line stanza using chain rhyme in the pattern A-B-A, B-C-B, C-D-C, D-E-D. There is no limit to the number of lines, but poems or sections of poems written in this end with either a single line or couplet repeating the rhyme of the middle line of the final tercet.
What is terza-rima.
500
FREE JEOPARDY!!!!! Can make descriptions of non-human entities more vivid, or can help readers understand, sympathize with, or react emotionally to non-human characters.
What is why an author would use personification?
500
This is a crucial part of making a story compelling. Authors provide details that make characters individual and particular in order to interest and move readers. This gives readers a strong sense of characters' personalities and complexities; it makes characters vivid, alive and believable.
What is why an author would use characterization?
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!! This form of poetry has only two rhyme sounds. The first and third lines of the first stanza are rhyming refrains that alternate as the third line in each successive stanza and form a couplet at the close. nineteen lines long, consisting of five tercets and one concluding quatrain. Because of its non-linear structure, this form does not tell a story or establish a conversational tone.
What is a villanelle?
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