Literary Devices
This device is Ms. Brown's favorite. Ask not why it is her favorite- Ask why it isn't yours.
This literary element is the part of the plot which introduces the main characters, setting, and the start of the conflict.
What is exposition?
This term from the Marxist lens describes a power imbalance where one social group or culture is dominant over others.
What is Hegemony?
This novel described many young individuals raised in an English boarding school who supposedly don't have 'souls' because they are cloned.
What is 'Never Let Me Go'?
Ms. Brown is from this state.
What is Wisconsin?
This literary device is often used to create sound effects in comic books and manga.
What is Onomatopoeia?
This element is also a literary device: it describes the organization of the story's various elements including plot, characters, and themes
What is Structure?
This term, often used by the postcolonial lens or Critical Race Theory, describes the dispersion or spread of a people from their original homeland.
What is diaspora?
This novel was written entirely in dialect and describes the life story of a young woman and her three marriages.
What is 'Their Eyes Were Watching God'?
If you were to ask to do something you KNOW you shouldn't do in Ms. Brown's class, how would she respond?
AbsoLUTEly not, OR 'Take a seat.' (One raised eyebrow and a glare is also acceptable.)
This literary device describes the atmosphere of the narrative.
What is mood?
This literary element is also a literary device, and describes a character's particular attitude or perspective that shapes an event or story. When used as an element, it is described in first, second, or third person.
What is point of view?
This term describes a common narrative that exists in the Collective Unconscious. We see it play out in myths and stories across the world, throughout time, before it was finally defined by Joseph Campbell and used in Jungian theory.
What is the Hero's Journey?
This play depicts a young many who is called by his father's ghost to avenge his death through murdering his uncle.
What is 'Hamlet'?
Who is Jupiter? (Also acceptable: Jujubeast, Juju, Little Man.)
This literary device is the term for a repeated symbol throughout a text.
What is motif?
When you think about how the problem in the story is (re)solved, you get the deeper meaning. When you ask yourself "What is this deeper meaning or message about?" you get this.
What is theme?
This term is used to describe a stereotype or trope that has been 'flipped around,' or reversed from the norm.
What is 'subverted' or subversion?
This text follows the story of a young man as he grapples with the death of his younger brother alone and spirals into madness.
What is 'Catcher in the Rye'?
Which novel from this year does Quinn have memorized?
What is 'Their Eyes Were Watching God'?
This is a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one
What is an allegory?
This is a tough one! There are 5 different ways to organize non-fictional texts. One of them is cause and effect. The others are __________.
What are compare and contrast, topic/subject, chronological, and problem/solution?
This Moral Framework describes an approach where one might ask themselves what an ideal person might do in a moral dilemma.
What is the Values Approach?
TRICKY ONE FROM LAST YEAR: This poem by Robert Browning is from the Romantic Era, and it is told from the point of view of a Duke to the audience (a servant for a wealthy man.) It describes a portrait of a woman, who was eventually killed because of the Duke's jealousy.
What is 'My Last Duchess'?
Which advisory in the tenth grade is obviously the most superior advisory in the school, without a doubt, hands down?
What is Ms. Brown's Advisory?