Literary Devices
Cat, hat.
What is Rhyme?
Brown, Blue, Butterflies.
What is Alliteration?
A street fighter takes down several people.
What is Person vs. Person?
A sticker stuck on a non-stick frying pan.
What is Situational Irony?
A claim/argument that states a belief.
What is a Thesis?
BOOM!
What is Onomatopoeia?
The shell was a mosaic of colors ranging from red to blue to green.
What is Visual Cues?
A woman suffers from severe depression after her family died.
What is Person vs. Self?
Someone writing, I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty.
What is Verbal Irony?
Proof from the text/book in the form of a quote that proves your claim.
What is Evidence?
Her dance is as beautiful as a butterfly.
What is Simile?
A dove is a symbol of peace.
What is Symbolism?
A man was trying to get to work, but his car was stuck in a blizzard.
What is Person vs. Nature?
An always-open sign that says it's closed.
What is Situational Irony?
Helps you introduce the quote.
What is a Dialogue Tag?
The clouds drifted lazily across the sky.
What is Personification?
The world is on fire.
What is Hyperbole?
A child was scared because there was a monster under his bed.
What is Person vs. Supernatural?
In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo thinks Juliet is dead and then kills himself as a result.
What is Dramatic Irony?
Explaining how the evidence you quoted proves your claim.
What is Analysis?
Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
What is Metaphor?
(This quote means life is a difficult, unpracticed concert where you must figure things out in real-time.)
Roses are red, AI is a bot, I need coffee because I'm tired a lot.
What is Rhythm?
The farmers protested because they had never received payment for their service in the war and had gone into debt.
What is Person vs. Society?
In Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Mark Antony repeatedly says in his funeral speech for Caesar: "Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; and Brutus is an honorable man.”
What is Verbal Irony?
Background information, NOT a summary.
What is Context?