Literary Devices
She sells seashells by the seashore is an example of what literary device?
What is alliteration?
Bess experiences this SIGNPOST when she hears The Highwayman returning to escape with her, so she decides to kill herself to save him.
What is an "Aha Moment"?
In "The Tell-Tale Heart", the last word in the story is heart which creates which smiley face tricks with the title?
What is Full-Circle Ending?
Which piece of punctuation is used in a list of three or more items?
What are commas?
"Tlot, tlot in the echoing night" from The Highwayman is an example of what literary device?
What are "Tough Questions"?
"She gave me that 'I-don't-really-care-what-you-are-saying-to-me-right-now look' when I tried to explain why she needed to do her homework" is an example of this Smiley Face Trick.
What is a hyphenated modifier?
A compound sentence uses a comma and a FANBOYS to connect these types of clauses.
What are independent clauses?
What is a subject or a predicate?
"She dwelt like a pale gray bird" from "Elizabeth Blackwell" is an example of what literary device?
What is a simile?
Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones creates this SIGNPOST when she brings Roger to her house after he tries to mug her.
What is "Contrast and Contradiction"?
What is Magic Three?
True or False: A comma always goes in front of the word BECAUSE in a sentence.
False, there should only be a COMMA after a subordinate clause that starts with Because when it is at the beginning of a sentence.
We use apostrophes to show this.
What is ownership or missing letters in a contraction?
How would you label the rhyme scheme of this poem:
"I cannot go to school today,’
Said little Peggy Ann McKay.
‘I have the measles and the mumps,
a gash, a rash, and purple bumps."
What is aabb?
When Squeaky references girls smiling at the beginning of the story and then at the end of the story, she is demonstrating this SIGNPOST.
What is "Again and Again"?
"As the sun peered over the horizon, its light bathed the lake in a crescendo of colors ranging from a bubble-gum pink to a tangerine orange that made the sky look like it was lit on fire" is example of this Smiley Face Trick.
What is Specific Details for Effect?
What tense of verbs should be used when writing about something that is currently happening?
What is present tense?
NEMAPS OR SPACE for a SONG title.
What is SPACE?
"[H]is eye resembled that of a vulture's eye" is an example of which literary device?
What is a metaphor?
"Life for me ain't been no crystal stair" in the poem "Mother to Son" is an example of this SIGNPOST.
What is "Words of the Wiser"?
"The fire crackled and sizzled and the embers looked like a sunset as it was edging over the horizon" is an example of this Smiley Face Trick.
What is Figurative Language?
How can you fix a run-on sentence?
What is a period and capital letter, a comma and FANBOYS, or a semicolon?
True or False: When writing dialogue, the dialogue punctuation should ALWAYS go outside of the quotation marks.
What is FALSE? Punctuation should go inside the quotation marks.