Literary Devices
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Figures of Speech
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Randomness at its best
100
The most exciting point in a story
What is climax?
100
A reference to a well-know person, place, event, literary work, or work of art
What is an allusion?
100
The time and place of the action in a liteary work
What is the setting?
100
The attributing of human characteristic to that which is not human
What is personification?
100

What is Mrs. Ficentise's dog's name? 

Who is Zoey? 

200
A writer's attitude toward his or her subject
What is tone?
200

Events which occur after the resolution in a story

What is the denouement?

200
The feeling created in the reader by the liteary work
What is mood?
200
The comparison of two unlike things using like or as
What is a simile?
200

Who is the best baseball team ever? 

The NY METS 

300
The central message in the form of a generalization about human beings or life
What is theme?
300
The repetition of initial sounds, especially consonants
What is alliteration?
300

The growing anticipation and tension rising in the text

What is Suspense?

300
A comparison of two unlike things which equates the two
What is metaphor?
300

What are the names of Mrs. Ficentise's sons? 

Noah and Gavin

400
A struggle between opposing forces, such as two people fighting or the problem in the story
What is confict?
400
The use of words that imitate sounds
What is onamatopoeia?
400
The use of clues to predict or suggest what occur later in a story
What is foreshadowing?
400

Anything that stands for or represents something else

What is a symbol?

400

Why must you always invite the mushroom to a party? 

What is- He's a FUN-GI? 

500

What are the two types of conflict we have studies so far

Internal & External 

500

"It's raining cats and dogs" is this type of figure of speech 

What is an Idiom?

500

The protagonist of a story is the 

What is Main Character?

500

What are at least three texts we have read/are reading so far as a class?

List:

The Horror Genre

The Tell Tale Heart

The Monkey's Paw

Of Mice & Men 

500

What do you call a tower of cats? 

What is- a MEOW-ntain? 

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