" He woke up on the wrong side of the bed" is an example of this kind of literary device.
What is an idiom?
100
This author lived in Baltimore and wrote stories such as "The Raven" and "Tell-Tale Heart".
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
100
Seeks to interpret the work of literature through the understanding of time and culture in which the work was written.
What is historical criticism ?
100
This type of figurative language compares two things using like or as.
What is a simile?
200
A word that expresses an action.
What is a verb?
200
The author's attitude toward what he is writing about is an example of this literary device.
What is tone?
200
This author wrote stories about the Great Depression such as Of Mice and Men.
Who is John Steinbeck?
200
Investigates the life of an author using primary texts, such as letters and diaries that might reveal the experiences, thoughts and feelings that led to the creation of the literary work.
What is biographical criticism?
200
This type of figurative language give human characteristics to animals or objects.
What is personification?
300
A word that receives the action in a sentence. For example ball in the sentence John caught the ball.
What is a direct object? 4
300
The point or lesson that an author is trying to make is an example of this type of literary device.
What is theme?
300
This author lived in England and wrote such stories such as Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth.
Who is Shakespeare?
300
Analyzes literature by examining images of women and concepts of the feminine in literature.
What is feminist criticism?
300
The use a a word to imitate a sound.
What is onomatopoeia?
400
A noun, a noun phrase, or a noun clause which sits next to another noun to rename it or to describe it in another way.
For example: Jenny, the head cheerleader, broke her leg.
What is an appositive?
400
When one of the characters is unaware of important information that the audience is made aware of the author is using this type of literary device.
What is dramatic irony?
400
This author wrote about his time in concentration camps during the Holocaust.
Who is Elie Wiesel?
400
Criticism that focuses on the relationship between literature and society and the social function in literature.
What is sociological criticism?
400
An over-exaggeration is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is hyperbole?
500
A word that expresses the relationship between two other nearby words.
What is a preposition?
500
An indirect or casual reference to a famous person, place or event in history is this type of literary device.
What is an allusion?
500
This author wrote a story about a girl who travels back in time and live life as a slave but returns to 1976 when her life is in danger.
Who is Octavia Butler?
500
This criticism analyzes the symbolic fictions that arise from the inner thoughts or subconscious of the characters or writers and attempts to explain them in a rational manner.
What is psychological criticism?
500
The repetition of an initial consonant sound in a series of words.