Literary Devices Definitions
Giving human qualities to inanimate objects.
What is personification?
The sun was smiling down
What is personification?
Can either be prescriptive or descriptive.
What is grammar?
A student is thinking about cheating on her test
What is internal conflict?
Who is the author?
Comparing two things that are unrelated to each other.
Life is a highway.
What is a Metaphor?
Examples: commas, periods, semi-colons, colons, etc.
What is punctuation?
Two siblings are arguing with each other.
What is external conflict?
Which word describes the tone of writing? 1.) Lonely 2.) Dreamy 3.) Terrifying
2.) Dreamy
Praising someone who has passed away; a long poem about the death of someone
What is an Elegy?
As busy as a bee.
What is a Simile?
Examples: Independent, Dependent, Compound
What are clauses?
An individual is struggling to meet someone else's expectations of them.
What is internal conflict?
Can tones change within a text?
Yes
The speaker addresses an individual who is absent or dead; or addresses something that is an abstraction or an inanimate object.
What is Apostrophe?
Sally sold seashells by the sea shore.
What is Alliteration?
Examples: verbs, nouns, adverbs, adjectives
A person passes away because of a brutal snow storm
What is external conflict
The definition of a word
The repetition of a word or a phrase that occurs at the beginning of a series of clauses or sentences; is often seen in poetry & speeches.
What is Anaphora?
What is an oxymoron?
Example: subject, verb, direct objects, indirect objects, etc.
What are the structural elements of a sentence?
The Montagues and The Capulets- who have grudges against each other
The feeling of a word
What is connotation?