Literary Devices
Figurative Language
Figurative Language 2
Literary Devices 2
Writing
100
The author's message
What is Theme
100
You just broke my heart
What is Metaphor
100
She was as red as a rose in full bloom
What is a Simile
100
You can use words like; happy, excited, sad to describe this literary device
What is Tone
100
The first sentence in a passage tells you this important detail
What is Main Idea
200
Author's use descriptive words to paint a picture in your mind
What is Imagery
200
________________ is used in this sentence, "She stood waiting by the shop window. On the other side of the glass, the diamond winked at her. "
What is Personification
200
Describing the main idea and most important details in a passage to help the reader understand it
What is Summarize
200
___________ describes the tone in this passage, "The supplies were carefully checked. Fortunately for the party, these had been stored within the hut. They had therefore escaped Uncle Billy's theiving fingers.They found that with care and wisdom they might last ten days longer."
What is Hopeful, Anxious, Loss
200
You have copied down a webpage from the internet and tried to pass it off as your own.
What is Plagiarism
300
An exerpt from "A Christams Carol" On a frigid, foggy Christmas Eve in London, a shrewd, mean-spirited cheapskate named Ebenezer Scrooge works meticulously in his counting-house. Outside the office creaks a little sign reading "Scrooge and Marley"--Jacob Marley, Scrooge's business partner, has died seven years previous. Inside the office, Scrooge watches over his clerk, a poor diminutive man named Bob Cratchit. The smoldering ashes in the fireplace provide little heat even for Bob's tiny room. Despite the harsh weather Scrooge refuses to pay for another lump of coal to warm the office. The sentence_______________________, best communicates author's attitude towards the story.
What is " On a frigid, foggy Christmas Eve in London, a shrewd, mean-spirited cheapskate named Ebenezer Scrooge works meticulously in his counting-house."
300
Morg could smell the fire and the smell was as familiar to her as the smell of her mother. She could sniff and tell in a moment whether the family were burning ash branches or hazel, hawthorn or coppiced elm. To Morg, it was the smell of home. The author's attitude toward the fire is___________.
What is peaceful, nostalgic
300
My forty-second birthday had made a lonely visit the week before, and I was once again by myself in the flat. Like countless other mornings, I ordered a bagel from the toaster. 'Yes, sir!' it replied with robotic relish, and I began the day's work on the project. It was a magnificent machine, the thing I was making - capable of transferring the minds of any two beings into each other's bodies. The author uses personification to___________.
What is to depict the bagel as a character
300
When I awoke, moments later, I noticed first that I was two feet shorter. Then, I realised the lack of my limbs, and finally it occurred to me that I was a toaster. I saw immediately the solution to the situation - the machine could easily reverse the transfer - but was then struck by my utter inability to carry this out. The diction (use of words) used in this sentence helps to create a tone that is____________.
What is shocking, silly
300
A good ___________ includes the main idea and details from the text Fill in the blank
What is Summary
400
My siblings and I archive the blanks in my mother’s memory, diagnose her in text messages. "...archive the blanks" in this poem means
What is pay attention to the mothers memory loss
400
Years later, in a rare moment of remorse, Johnson wondered what it was like for the ant. Trapped…helpless…waiting for the spider to return. Did they know fear or horror? Or was that something only humans experienced? The insect brain was too small he told himself. Or so he hoped. What does the use of personification help the reader understand about the author?
What is the feeling of regret for feeding the ants to the spider.
400
In silence the heart raves. It utters words Meaningless, that never had a meaning. I was ten, skinny, red-headed, freckled. The use of imagery in this sentence enhances the passage by
What is creating a metaphor for how the author saw himself
400
A lot can change in just a few years - a lot of heartache can change a person and drive a wedge through the strongest ties, break even the deepest love. Three years to the day and they had returned, though this time not for the beachside marriages the island was famous for but for one of its equally popular quickie divorces. The figurative language in this passage that best communicates the “feeling of sadness and loss” is the author’s description of the________________.
What is a lot of heartache can change a person and drive a wedge through the strongest ties, break even the deepest love.
400
John Smith. Pocahontas. Pioneer Press. June 20, 1900. Print ...is a correct MLA citation.
What is an incorrect MLA citation
500
You could see Ancrum Road Primary School if you stood on the wall outside St Mary's Catholic Church where the High Street became the Lochee Road. I had no idea what Alcatraz was then, but if I had, I would certainly have named that institution of junior learning 'Alcatraz on the Hill'. This motivated the author to name the church 'Alcatraz on the Hill'
What is a metaphor for feeling trapped, like in a prison.
500
My mother is sleeping, stretched out in her new chair. I turn on her TV, volume low, kneel down and feed the cassette I've brought into her VCR. Like my mother the machine is old and doesn't always co-operate, but I've caught it on a good day. It swallows the tape without complaint and begins to run. I ease back towards the settee and settle down to watch. The author's purpose for comparing the mother to the cassette tape is___________.
What is a metaphor for the mother and tape being old.
500
How could this beautiful place, with its lush green coastline, eternity of azure blue sea and endless sands be a place for the agony she felt now? The narrator's use of imagery to contrast the place and how she feels creates two different types of tone, which is______.
What is painful, and peaceful
500
As usual, for a few short days, the Tabloid newspapers had the edge. The regular news media filed stories daily - the Tabs' worked on a weekly deadline. With a story moving this fast there was no time to look back. The body count was growing each day as police pieced together Dahmer's ten-year rampage - with the bones and flesh that remained. The author organized the opening paragraph of the passage to_____________.
What is contrasting the excitement of the tabloids to horror of the deaths
500
A close read or annotation of a passage is most useful when_____________.
What is the best way to annotate? It is to read the passage several times. have a conversation with the text by Q & A and writing down thoughts and reactions.
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