Literary Devices
"Her eyes lit up like lasers" is an example of this literary device.
What is a simile?
Parents often share ______ about their past experiences to teach their children lessons.
What are anecdotes?
The time and place in which a text is written.
What is context?
She says, "A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing."
Who is Nana?
A child taking care of their parent for example (literary device)
What is irony?
The breeze sighed as the window opened to ventilate the room.
What is personification?
What is contrived?
Speaker, Audience, and Message.
What are the parts of the rhetorical triangle?
This character says, "Marriage can wait. Education cannot."
Who is Laila's dad (Hakim)?
Cathartic stories are great examples of this rhetorical appeal.
What is pathos?
What is hyperbole?
Young children often ________ their favorite athletes.
What is venerate?
TV, TikTok, Film, Talk Radio, Social media, etc.
What is/are media?
The author of A Thousand Splendid Suns who also wrote Kite Runner.
Who is Khaled Hosseini?
Few people in class understood the teacher's _________ explanation of the problem.
After the betrayal, his heart became a locked box with no key.
What is a metaphor?
When I was brought home by the police, my father was ________.
What is livid?
An advertisement for "Icy Hot Patch" featuring Shaquille O'Neal uses this rhetorical appeal.
What is ethos?
This character in A Thousand Splendid Suns shares what they learned about tectonic plates in a secret class.
Who is Aziza?
The information included in a parenthetical citation.
What is the author's last name and page number?
The turtles triumphed over the tide and swam out to sea.
What is alliteration?
The teacher warned the __________ students that any paper turned in after the deadline would not be graded.
What is dilatory?
Martin Luther King Jr's was the pressing need to end systemic racism.
What is exigence?
The first 6 characters to die in the book, in chronological order. (Hint: 4 are related to Laila)
Who are Nana, Laila's brothers (Noor and Ahmad), Giti, and Laila's parents (Hakim and Fariba)?
The quote "Everybody wants Jack . . . that's what it is. Everyone wants Jack to rescue them from disaster" uses this literary device.
What is an allusion?