Literary Devices One
When words are used to suggest the opposite of the literal meaning.
What is Verbal Irony?
An appeal to your emotions uses this rhetorical device.
What is ethos?
A literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.
what is Foreshadowing?
A picture, description, or imitation of a person in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect.
What is caricature?
An exaggeration.
What is Hyperbole?
A form of figurative language in which something that is not human is given human characteristics.
What is Personification?
An author’s attitude toward his or her subject and audience.
What is Tone?
The harmonious combination of words.
What is euphony?
A person/thing that is the direct opposite of something else.
What is antithesis??
When the audience knows something the characters do not.
What is Dramatic Irony?
The writer or speaker refers either directly or indirectly to a person, event, or thing in history or to a work of art or literature.
What is Allusion?
Anything that appears on the surface to be one thing, yet represents something else and carries a hidden, deeper meaning.
What is Symbolism?
What is a logos?
A celebrity holding a product adds this rhetorical appeal to the ad.
What is a ethos?
"A cool breeze carried carnival music and the aroma of popcorn my way. Just over the rise the lights blinked in a million colors." This appeal to the senses and the mental picture are this literary device.
What is a imagery?
When the first letters of words are the same as in: She shook the shears at the sheep.
What is alliteration?
A seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well-founded or true.
What is a paradox?
A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa.
What is synecdoche?
A figure of speech that makes a comparison using "like" or "as."
What is Simile?
A figure of speech that compares two things that are unrelated, but which share some common characteristics.
What is Metaphor?
Words that imitate sounds.
What is Onomatopoeia?
When you compare someone to a summer's day, you're using this literary device.
What is Analogy?
A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word.
What is a pun?
An overused, worn-out word or phrase.
What is Cliche?
Our classroom's number.
What is 200?