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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
I have a dream that my four little children will live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream. I have a dream that one day...
What is anaphora
I ran, I jumped, I swam.
I was running, jumping, and swimming.
Parallelism
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. (a paragraph for poetry)
What is stanza?
Get dressed up so you can come sit down at one of the coziest cafes in town.
What is antithesis?
Snap!
What is onomatopoeia?
Comparing and contrasting of two or more different (usually opposite) ideas, characters, objects, etc.
What is juxtaposition?
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?
He bought the farm or passed on (instead of died).
What is euphemism?
"There is no Southern problem. There is no Northern problem. There is only an American problem.
What is epistrophe?
Repetition of vowel sounds ("how could you stop the apocalypse when I'm atomic bombing the populous?")
What is assonance?
"It's a doggy-dog world" (instead of dog eat dog).
What is malapropism
When the audience knows Juliet isn't really dead but Romeo does not.
What is dramatic irony?