Literary devices!
A comparison using "like" or "as"
What is simile?
Giving human characteristics to something non-human
What is personfication?
"Wearily wandering wolves"
What is alliteration?
An exaggerated statement
What is hyperbole?
Hat Cat Sat is an example of this literary device
What is rhyme?
"There's bitter butter in this batter"
What is alliteration?
TRUE OR FALSE: a theme of the short stories we read is "ethical dilemmas"
What is true?
The underlying meaning behind the text
What is theme?
Language that evokes a mental image of any of the five senses
What is imagery?
Jumbo shrimp is an example of this
What is an oxymoron?
Apparently contradictory terms that appear directly alongside one another
What is an oxymoron?
An offhand reference to a person/place/event/another work of literature within a text
What is an allusion?
An appeal to the audiences’ emotions
What is pathos?
Direct comparisons that state one thing is another.
What is metaphor?
The use of an object or phenomenon to represent a more abstract idea
What is symbolism?
TRUE OR FALSE: irony is when the audience knows something is happening before the character themselves knows
What is TRUE?
"the wind danced across the field" is an example of this
What is personification
"There's no "I" in team" is an example of this literary device
What is cliche?
An appeal to the audiences’ reasoning
What is logos?
The word blue in the statement "I'm feeling blue" is the example of the use of this literary device
What is connotation?