Literary devices
Deafening silence!
What is an oxymoron?
the use of sarcasm or when a speaker’s intention is the opposite of what they are saying
e.g "Wow, you could win an award for cleanliness!" after looking at a messy room.
What is verbal irony?
What a piece of literature is mostly about.
What is a Main Idea/central idea
The story took place in a land far away, where the mountains arched over the green forest.
What is setting?
Where Gabrielle and Liam lived in Bluffing.
What is Jasper?
The Wicked Witch of the West went her own way.
What is alliteration?
A literary device in which a writer uses one thing to represent another.
What is symbolism?
What is this an example of :
“Nory was a Catholic because her mother was a Catholic, and Nory’s mother was a Catholic because her father was a Catholic, and her father was a Catholic because his mother was a Catholic, or had been.”
What is repetition?
The moment of highest excitement.
What is the Climax?
The thing that caused the narrator to kill the old man.
What is his eye?
Snap!
What is onomatopoeia?
I'm so tired I could sleep for a week!
What is hyperbole?
A message or a moral found in a story.
What is theme?
He was a lion on the battlefield.
What is a metaphor?
What happens to the parents in The Veldt.
What is they get eaten by lions?
The trees danced in the breeze.
What is personification?
A man is about to give a speech to a large audience on biology. Suddenly, he remembers playing with frogs and toads in his backyard as a curious child. He smiles at the memory, and then begins to speak to the audience about a new, groundbreaking finding about frogs.
What is flashback?
When we are introduced to characters and setting.
What is the exposition?
A character must face their fears in order to overcome an obstacle.
What is a person vs self/internal conflict?
The name of the protagonist in The Most Dangerous Game.
Who is Rainsford?
The gushing brook stole its way down the lush green mountains, dotted with tiny flowers in a riot of colors and trees coming alive with gaily chirping birds.
What is Imagery?
a photograph of a seagull sitting on top of a no seagulls sign
what is irony?
The moment when the conflict is introduced.
What is the inciting incident?
The central character in the story.
The name of Donny's tutor in Teenage Wasteland.
Who is Cal?