Literary Vocabulary
Literary & Rhetorical Devices Category
Literary Movements
Analogies
Parallel Structure
100
The use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning [i.e. buzz, clang]
What is onomatopoeia?
100
The steeds in their stalls stamp and neigh…” Neigh is example of what literary device?
What is onomatopoeia?
100
Which author wrote “Quoth the raven, ‘Nevermore’”?
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
100
The relationship between east and west is the same as the relationship between marriage and ____________
What is divorce?
100
I liked running, biking, and to swim.
What is I liked running, biking, and swimming?
200
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without the use of the words like or as
What is metaphor?
200
Which of the five senses is appealed to in the following sentence: “The silence of the night was broken by the eerie scream echoing against the cavernous walls of the city”?
What is sound?
200
Henry David Thoreau was a major writer of which literary movement?
What is Transcendentalism?
200
The relationship between emotion and hate is the same as the relationship between subject and ____________
What is (school subject)?
200
He wanted to travel, to see the world, and eat amazing food.
What is He wanted to travel, to see the world, and to eat amazing food?
300
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or actions
What is personification?
300
Give one example of onomatopoeia.
Answers May Vary.
300
Puritanism took place during which era? (Revolutionary Era, Colonial Era, or Civil War Era)
What is Colonial Era?
300
The relationship between exercise and weight loss is the same as the relationship between studying and ____________
What is passing?
300
The technical manual for the new computer is complex, not very well organized, and confusing.
What is The technical manual for the new computer is complex, unorganized, and confusing.
400
The arrangement of two or more ideas, characters, actions, settings, phrases or words side by side in order to compare/contrast the two.
What is juxtaposition?
400
“The trees danced in the wind” contains an example of which figure of speech?
What is personification?
400
This Rationalism writer said “Give me liberty, or give me death!”
Who is Patrick Henry?
400
The relationship between happy and joy is the same as the relationship between sad and ____________
What is depressed?
400
Desmond’s basement has aquariums filled with spiders that jump, hissing snakes, and squealing rodents
What is Desmond’s basement has aquariums filled with jumping spiders, hissing snakes, and squealing rodents?
500
A story or poem in which characters, setting, and events represent other people, events, abstract ideas, or qualities
What is allegory?
500
A reference to the Boston Tea Party in a work of literature would be an example of (allegory, archetype, allusion, or alliteration)
What is allusion?
500
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” was written during which literary movement?
What is Puritanism?
500
The relationship between California and San Francisco is the same as the relationship between Arizona and ____________________
What is Phoenix?
500
Celine looked behind the toilet, in the laundry basket, and checked under the bed, but she could not find her nine-foot python.
What is Celine looked behind the toilet, in the laundry basket, and under the bed, but she could not find her nine-foot python?
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