Literary Devices One
When words are used to suggest the opposite of the literal meaning.
What is Verbal Irony?
A literary device in which an author gives a hint about what will happen further along in the text.
What is Foreshadowing?
A poem that tells a story or historical narration
What is a narrative poem?
Occurs when the audience expects something to happen, but then something else happens instead.
What is Situational Irony?
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?
A poem with no set structure nor rhyme
What is free verse?
The author’s use of developing a character by providing physical and personality traits of an individual in the story.
What is Direct Characterization?
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?
When an author addresses the poem directly to someone else
What is a Apostrophe?
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 mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh
What is Euphemism?
A Japanese style poem with three lines in the pattern of 5, 7 5 syllables.
What is haiku?
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 poem that has 16 lines, with a strict rhyme pattern.
Sonnet
An overused, worn-out word or phrase.
What is Cliche?
What is a literary device that describes a saying or phrase that is widely used?
What is an IDIOM?