Literary devices
Deafening silence!
What is an oxymoron?
the use of sarcasm or when a speaker’s intention is the opposite of what they are saying
e.g "Wow, you could win an award for cleanliness!" after looking at a messy room.
What is verbal irony?
What a piece of literature is mostly about.
What is a Main Idea/central idea
The story took place in a land far away, where the mountains arched over the green forest.
What is setting?
The people in the story were named Jill, Riley, and Kitty, and Tony.
What is characters?
The Wicked Witch of the West went her own way.
What is alliteration?
A literary device in which a writer uses one thing to represent another.
What is symbolism?
What is this an example of :
“Nory was a Catholic because her mother was a Catholic, and Nory’s mother was a Catholic because her father was a Catholic, and her father was a Catholic because his mother was a Catholic, or had been.”
What is repetition?
A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem.
What is stanza?
"It's not you it's me,I gotta stay focused," said Leroy empathetically.
Jill begged with a loud wail "Leroy, please don't do this to us, I thought you loved me!"
What is dialogue?
Snap!
What is onomatopoeia?
The narrator called her beautiful, not pretty. There is a difference!!!
diction?
A message or a moral found in a story.
What is theme?
What is Foreshadowing?
The gushing brook stole 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?
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?
White.
There it was again.
Part of me was trying to remember something. I could feel my subconscious furiously digging to bring it up to the surface. It was so close. Right on the tip of my tongue.
Something white.
That was it!
Why hadn’t I seen it before?
I had to go!
I ran down the driveway. I had to be sure.
What is suspense?
A man is about to give a speech to a large audience on biology. Suddenly, he remembers playing with frogs and toads in his backyard as a curious child. He smiles at the memory, and then begins to speak to the audience about a new, groundbreaking finding about frogs.
What is flashback?
"Add fuel to the fire" is an example of a
What is Idiom?
In the play 'Oedipus Rex', the main character is cursed by a prophecy that causes him to kill his father and marry his mother.
What is conflict?
Junior is a player. The word player can have two meanings.
What is denotation and connotation?