Types of Imagery
This form of imagery appeals to the reader's sense of sight.
What is visual imagery?
A direct comparison between two unalike things to highlight a similarity between them.
What is a metaphor?
A direct comparison that uses "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
The literary device present in the quote: "He is between jobs right now."
What is a euphemism?
This is what goes in the D1 of the ABCD format.
What is stating the literary device?
This form of imagery appeals to the reader's sense of hearing.
What is auditory imagery?
The attribution of human characteristics to non-human things, such as an object or animal.
What is personification?
Two or more contrasting ideas, places, characters, and/or their actions placed side by side in a text.
What is juxtaposition?
The type of irony present in a movie where the audience knows a villian is hiding in the closet, but the character in the scene does not.
What is dramatic irony?
This is the first step of the ABCD format.
What is C: Quote & Citation?
This form of imagery appeals to the reader's sense of touch.
What is tactile imagery?
What is an allegory?
The literary term for an exaggeration.
What is a hyperbole?
The literary device at play in a story where a fire station burns down while the firefighters are away on a training exercise.
What is situational irony?
This stage of the ABCD format is a statement of analysis that is based on the effect of the literary device and connects to the topic sentence argument.
What is the D4?
This form of imagery appeals to the reader's sense of smell.
What is olfactory imagery?
When two contrasting words are placed directly next to each other.
What is an oxymoron?
When the name of something is replaced with a word associated with that thing.
What is a metonymy?
The literary device at play when a character says, "Oh, great! Another flat tire. Just what I needed today!"
What is verbal irony?
This is what goes in the D3 of the ABCD format.
This form of imagery appeals to the reader's sense of taste.
What is gustatory imagery?
An under-exaggeration that uses negation.
What is a litote?
A subtle reference to a real person, place, or event.
What is an allusion?
The literary device being used when you say "Nice wheels!" instead of "Nice car!"
What is a synecdoche?
This is what goes in a proper MLA citation.
What are parenthesis with the author's last name and page number?