Definitions
This literary devices uses the words "like" or "as" to compare.
What is a simile.
Name the figurative language device: "CRACCCKKKK!"
What is onomatopoeia?
Name the figurative language device: "Did you hear that the police station got robbed last night?"
What is irony?
This term refers to a conversation between two or more characters.
What is Dialogue?
This term refers to the smallest division of a play, which marks the appearance of new or different settings, characters, and/or events.
What is a scene?
This literary devices repeats the same sounds at the beginning of the word.
What is alliteration.
Name the figurative language device: "On Saturday I totaled my car. My mom said it was only a small scrape."
What is an understatement?
Identify the figurative language device: "The slithering snake stalked the scared seniors."
What is alliteration?
This occurs when the audience or reader knows something that the characters in the story do not know.
What is Dramatic Irony?
This term refers to a division in a play which, much like the chapters of a novel, separates sections of the plot.
What is an Act?
This literary devices gives human like qualities to an inanimate object or animal.
What is personification?
Name the figurative language device: "Dogs stand for loyalty and devotion".
What is symbolism?
Name the figurative language device: "I'm a baker because I knead the dough."
What is a pun?
This term describes a protagonist with a fatal flaw that eventually leads to his demise.
What is a Tragic Hero?
This often appears as italicized comments that identify parts of the setting or the use of props or costumes. They also give further information about a character or background.
What are Stage Directions?
This literary device directly compares one thing to another.
What is a metaphor?
Name the figurative language device: "The crimson red apple in her calloused old hand glistened."
What is imagery?
Name the figurative language device: "Please stop acting like such a Romeo in class."
What is allusion?
This is the term used to describe a work of literature that uses dialogue and is designed to be performed in front of an audience.
What is a Drama?
This is a long speech spoken by a character to himself, another character, or to the audience.
What is a monologue?
This literary device is a reference to another play/book/tv show/movie.
What is an allusion?
Name the figurative language device: "Bless your heart"
What is an idiom?
Name the figurative language device: "He was a hurricane when he walked into the room."
What is a metaphor?
This character is much like another in rank, class, and background, BUT has opposite traits which provide a contrast and sometimes a conflict between the two characters.
What is a Foil?
What is a soliloquy?