The Most Lit of Literary Devices
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Simile or metaphor? "Life is a highway, I want to ride it all night long"
What is hyperbole?
Using intentional exaggeration to emphasize a point you're trying to make.
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What is morphology?
We know what tone is, but why do writers use it?
To say a lot with a little!
You have 30 seconds to give me a one-sentence objective summary of the movie Frozen. What makes this summary objective?
Objective summaries do not use any adjectives, because they are meant to be based on FACTS, not FEELINGS.
Why do writers use figurative language (like similes and metaphors) in the first place?
To express deeper meaning with fewer words.
What are rhetorical questions?
Questions that a writer uses for emphasis rather than for the purpose of receiving an answer.
What's the difference between a noun and a pronoun?
Nouns identify people, places, and things.
Pronouns replace nouns.
What are the three types of speeches?
Manuscript, extemporaneous, and impromptu
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Identify one theme that you see on display in the movie Frozen.
Fill in the blanks: All BLANK devices are BLANK, but not all BLANK devices are BLANK. (Your options are literary or rhetorical)
All literary devices are rhetorical, but not all rhetorical devices are literary.
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Identify each of the three parts of the rhetorical triangle.
What is the difference between an adjective and an adverb?
Adjectives describe NOUNS.
Adverbs describe VERBS and ADJECTIVES.
What is an inference? Please provide an example of this.
a conclusion reached on the basis of (a) evidence and (b) background knowledge.
The title of the song "Love Is An Open Door" is an example of which literary device?
Metaphor!
What is the difference between alliteration and anaphora?
Alliteration - repetition of the consonant sounds at the beginning of a word
Anaphora = repetition of a word or phrase at the start of consecutive sentences.
What is an allusion? Provide an example of one.
allusion: an indirect or passing reference to something from history, religion, or literature.
Identify THREE (3) different parts of speech you see in the following sentence:
"Mr. Bravin was happy that our class excelled at Jeopardy, so he canceled our homework assignment."
The full-class discussions we do (where half of the class speaks and the other half listens) were inspired by a famous philosopher. What is their name?
Socrates
Identify one central idea that we can pull from the movie Frozen and tell us what makes it a central idea.
Central idea = universal and related to the story
Katy Perry's "Firework" opening lines begin with a literary device and a rhetorical device. What are these devices?
Simile, rhetorical question, anaphora
All pieces of rhetoric can be divided into FOUR (4) parts. What are these parts?
Position, claim, evidence, commentary
What part of speech is the word "happy"?. Then, alter the word "happy" to create (a) a noun and (b) an adverb that both are related to its meaning.
Happy = adjective
happiness = noun
happily = adverb
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TWO (2) of the six text structures we see in pieces of writing are non-linear. Identify these two text structures.
What type of text structure characterizes the movie Frozen?
Sequential, Chronological, or Cause-and-effect; but mainly Problem/solution