Lit Terms 1
This term refers to an autobiographical story that focuses on a specific period in the author’s life.
Memoir
_______ is an appeal to logic, _______ is an appeal to the speaker's credibility, and _______ is an appeal to emotion.
Logos, ethos, pathos
From Ms. Lauryn Hill: "Loving you is like a battle." What device is she using?
Simile
What term describes a character who changes significantly over the course of a story?
Dynamic character
The narrator of Animal Farm is ________ because they know the thoughts and feelings of every character. The narrator of Parable of the Sower is ________ because Lauren only knows how she thinks and feels about certain situations, but she can't speak from the perspective of other characters.
In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo describes his feelings as "feather of lead," "bright smoke," "cold fire," "sick health," "still-waking sleep," and, earlier, "heavy lightness" and "serious vanity." What literary device is he using?
Oxymoron
Millions of people vote in the presidential election each year. Therefore, you should also vote in the election so you can be just like everyone else. What propaganda technique is being used here?
Bandwagon
Taylor Swift once said, "I might be okay, but I'm not fine at all." What literary device is she using?
Paradox
First-person writing uses pronouns like ________, second-person writing uses pronouns like ________, and third-person writing uses pronouns like ________.
First: I, me, my, we, us, our
Second: you, your, yours
Third: he, she, they
With antithesis, the second half of the sentence is the _______ of the first half. With chiamus, the second half of the sentence is the _______ of the first half.
Opposite, reverse
From the novel A Tale of Two Cities: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." What device is being used here?
Antithesis
Whenever something goes wrong on Animal Farm, the pigs blame Snowball. What propaganda technique are they using?
Scapegoating
In SZA's song "Good Days," she sings, "Feeling like Jericho, feeling like Job when he lost his sh*t, I gotta hold my own." What literary device is she using?
Biblical allusion
This literary device is when the audience knows more information than the characters in a story, typically leading to a tragic or comedic effect.
Dramatic irony
Animal Farm is a/an ________, because it has symbolism and a political/social message, and it's a/an ________, because it's a simple story with animals as characters and a moral message.
Allegory, fable
JFK once said, "Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate." What device is he using?
Chiasmus
What rhetorical appeal is Old Major using? "This single farm of ours would support a dozen horses, twenty cows, hundreds of sheep-and all of them living in a comfort and a dignity that are now almost beyond our imagining. Why then do we continue in this miserable condition?"
Logos
Snoop Dogg once said, "With my mind on my money and my money on my mind." What device is he using?
Chiasmus
Parable of the Sower is known as a __________ novel because it describes an imaginary society filled with great suffering and corruption.
Dystopian
What literary device is this? "The pen is mightier than the sword."
Metonymy
What literary device is this? "All hands on deck!"
Synecdoche
Old Major says, " I have had a long life, I have had much time for thought as I lay alone in my stall, and I think I may say that I understand the nature of life on this earth as well as any animal now living." What rhetorical appeal is he using?
What three literary devices are being used in these Kendrick Lamar lyrics?
"I got power, poison, pain, and joy inside my DNA
I got hustle, though, ambition, flow inside my DNA"
No hyperbole or idiom
Anaphora, alliteration, epistrophe
Which allusions are being used here? 1.) Lauren mentions Zeus, 2.) Linh and Bao's relationship in A Pho Love Story is compared to Romeo and Juliet, 3.) Elie Wiesel compares a man to the religious figure of Job, and 4.) Lauren compares her community to the Underground Railroad from the nineteenth century.
Classical, literary, biblical, historical