Can you name it?
Person or place that stands for something larger than itself
What is a symbol?
I just walked a thousand miles in boiling hot temperatures while mowing the lawn!
What is a hyperbole?
This house is as clean as a whistle.
What is a simile?
Where and when a story took/is taking place.
What is the setting?
The fifth planet from the sun
What is Jupiter?
The author's attitude toward a subject in a particular piece of work
What is tone? or What is author tone? (I'll even take mood)
In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, love is a recurring theme throughout the play. It shows up everywhere. Another literary word for this theme would be known as
What is a motif?
What is imagery? (I'll take personification for the crowd, because people form a crowd)
The setting, plot, and characters revealed at the beginning of a story.
What is the exposition?
The number of bones in the adult human body.
What is 206?
a comparison between two unlike ideas without using like or as
What is a metaphor?
Jumbo shrimp. Dry water. Hot ice cubes.
What is an oxymoron?
"America's anti-pollution efforts should focus on privately owned cars because it would allow most citizens to contribute to national efforts and care about the outcome." - Purdue Owl
What is a thesis/claim?
A category of literary composition.
What is a genre?
This crustacean's heart is located in it's head.
What is a shrimp?
the correct title for the main character of a story
Who is the protagonist? (What is...)
She had a photographic memory but never developed it. OR Denial is a river in Egypt.
What is a pun?
"You are amongst them, of course. Your curiosity got the better of you, as curiosity is wont to do. You stand in the fading light, the scarf around your neck pulled up against the chilly evening breeze, waiting to see for yourself exactly what kind of circus only opens once the sun sets." - Erin Morgenstern The Night Circus
What is 2nd person narrative p.o.v.?
In literature, when an author uses an expression to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly.
What is an allusion?
What is 8-10?
Problem with a certain point of narrative point of view, where the point of view only appears in one way from a one-sided opinion.
What is the bias of the 1st person narrator?
The literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings a word suggests.
In poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel. "He fell asleep under the cherry tree."
What is assonance?
A warning or indication of a future event.
What is foreshadowing?
There are this many ways to make change for a dollar.
What is 293?