LiterAry devices
Deafening silence!
What is an oxymoron?
"I could hear a faint buzzing"
What is onomatopoeia?
What is a pun?
Give a metaphor to describe life
"Life is a highway"
"life is a box of chocolates"
Peter picked a pickled pepper
What is alliteration?
When the speaker or author doesn't say exactly what they mean, but uses devices like simile, metaphor, allusion, idiom, personification, or euphemism to convey meaning.
What is figurative language?
It's only 11am. I'm starving!!!
What is hyperbole?
When a text is written from the perspective of the narrator, usually using "I" pronouns.
What is 1st person POV?
"Fear leads to anger; anger leads to hatred; hatred leads to conflict; conflict leads to suffering."
This is an example of what?
What is repetition?
He is like a giraffe; long-necked with small ears.
What is simile?
The Wicked Witch of the West went her own way.
What is alliteration?
"A horse is a very stable animal"
What is a pun?
Words like boom, puff, grunt, boom, burp
What is onomatopoeia?
"In the moonlight, the waves dance and play with the shore"
What is personification?
A group of lines in a poem separated by a space
What is a stanza?
In Shakespeare's Hamlet, Marcellus' warning that "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark" is an example of what?
What is a foreshadowing?
a photograph of a seagull sitting on top of a no seagulls sign
what is irony?
“I am so tired I cannot walk another inch” or “I’m so sleepy I might fall asleep standing here”.
What is hyperbole?
He was a lion on the battlefield.
What is metaphor?
The clock screamed at me, for it was time to go work.
What is personification?
"Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -"
What is this an example of?
A metaphor
The gushing brook made its way down the lush green mountains, dotted with tiny flowers in a riot of colors and trees coming alive with gaily chirping birds.
What is imagery?
"He finally kicked the bucket"
What is Euphemism?
Give an example of a theme from one of the texts we have studied this year.
What is...?