Average Literary Elements Examples
Advanced Literary Elements Definitions
Average Literary Element Definitions
Advanced Literary Elements Examples
Irony
100
What is an example of personification in this sentence?


The window winked at me. 

Windows can not wink so that is the example. 
100

a comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph, or lines in a poem

What is an extended metaphor?
100

What is personification?

Giving human characteristics to something not human. 

100

This poem is an example of?

Well, son, I’ll tell you:

Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.

It’s had tacks in it,

And splinters,

And boards torn up,

And places with no carpet on the floor—

Bare.

But all the time

I’se been a-climbin’ on,

And reachin’ landin’s,

And turnin’ corners,

And sometimes goin’ in the dark

Where there ain’t been no light.

So boy, don’t you turn back.

Don’t you set down on the steps

’Cause you finds it’s kinder hard.

Don’t you fall now—

For I’se still goin’, honey,

I’se still climbin’,

And life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.


An extended metaphor.
100
What is irony?

When you expect or say something but outcome is opposite.

200
What is the tone in this conversation?

Mom: We're Going on Vacation!

Son: Yay I can't wait!

The tone of this conversation is joyful and happy.
200
An extended metaphor. 
Allegory.
200
What is imagery?
Descriptive text an author uses to appeal to your five senses.
200

Animal Farm is an.......

Allegory
200
This quote for "The Ransome of Red Chief" is an example of which kind of irony?

"There was a town down there, as flat as a funnel-cake, and called Summit of course" (Line 5).

Verbal Irony
300

“ I was still thinking about it while I was doing my homework that night. I had to read Great Expectations for English, and that kid Pip, he reminded me of us--- the way he felt marked lousy because he wasn't a gentleman or anything, and the way that girl kept looking down on him.” (From The Outsiders Page 14)   What is the allusion in this Paragraph?

The allusion is to the book Great Expectations

 
300
When a word stands for something else.
 What is metonomy?
300
 What is an allusion?

A reference to a famous work (book, song, movie, etc). Can be direct or indirect (hinted)

300

This an example of...

"I drink to the general joy o' the whole table."

(from Macbeth)

Metonomy. "the whole table" refers to those who are present. 
300

In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the audience knows that Macbeth acts loyal to Duncan while planning his murder.

This is an example of which kind of Irony?

Dramatic Irony. 
400

What literary element is in this excerpt from Paul Revere's Ride?

A glimmer, and then a gleam of light!

He springs to the saddle, the bridle he turns,

But lingers and gazes, till full on his sight

A second lamp in the belfry burns!

A hurry of hoofs in a village-street,

A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark, 

And beneath from the pebbles, in passing, a spark 


Imagery
400
When you expect or say something but outcome is opposite.
 What is Irony?
400
 What is tone?
Writers attitude toward the subject, setting, or characters they're writing about. 
400
A sign that says stop, next to a sign that says keep moving is an example of?
Irony
400

From "The Ransome of Red Chief"

"you bring Johnny home and pay me two hundred and fifty dollars in cash" (line 306-307). 

This is an example of which kind of irony?

Situational Irony because we expect the father to pay but instead the kidnappers pay.  
500

Cruel to be kind, Pain for pleasure, Pretty ugly, are all examples of what?

Oxymoron.
500

 refers to polite, indirect expressions that replace words and phrases considered harsh and impolite, or which suggest something unpleasant 

What is euphemism? 
500
What is an oxymoron?

Two words that contradict each other and put together as one saying. 

500

This quote from Animal Farm is an example of?

“For the time being,” he explains, “it had been found necessary to make a readjustment of rations.”

Euphemism. By "readjustments" Squealer really means reduction. 
500

Your parents pretend not to know you damaged the car, and ask a series of seemingly innocent questions that eventually lead to your confession.  

What type of Irony is this? 

Socratic Irony 
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