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200
Comparison using 'like' or 'as'
What is a simile?
200
What is a simile?
200
Break a leg!
What is an idiom?
200
"But that talk in there, about the bathroom--" -Aibileen (Stockett, p.12)
What is a symbol(ism)?
200
'Cause baby, you're a firework
C'mon, show 'em what you're worth
Make 'em go "Aah, aah, aah"
As you shoot across the sky
Baby, you're a firework
C'mon, let your colors burst
Make 'em go, "Aah, aah, aah"
You're gonna leave them all in awe, awe, awe
-Firework, Katy Perry
What is a metaphor?
200
When you have to infer what the character trait is.
What is indirect characterization?
400
When an author directly states a character trait
What is direct characterization?
400
What is a pun?
400
The lightning danced across the sky.
What is personification?
400
"She like one a them baby chickens that get confused and follow the ducks around instead." - Aibileen (Stockett, p.106)
What is a simile?
400
It happens once in a blue moon.
What is an idiom?
400
A universal idea, lesson, or message explored throughout a work of literature.
What is a theme?
600
Where and when a story takes place.
What is the setting?
600
What is dialect?
600
After a terrible encounter, saying: "well, that was pleasant."
What is verbal irony?
600
"I was just informed," the announcer say, panting, "that Medgar Evers is dead." (Stockett, p. 229)
What is allusion?
600
"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect."
-The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
What is omniscient/3rd person POV?
600
Descriptive language that engages the human senses.
What is imagery?
800
It motivates characters to take action and keeps the readers engaged.
What is conflict?
800
What is situational irony?
800
"But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."
-Act 2, Scene 2, Romeo and Juliet
What is a metaphor?
800
"Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?" - Constantine (Stockett, p.73)
What is dialect?
800
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief,
That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she.
Be not her maid, since she is envious;
Her vestal livery is but sick and green
And none but fools do wear it; cast it off.
-Act 2, Scene 2, Romeo and Juliet
What is personification?
800
A literary device or event in which how things seem to be is in fact very different from how they actually are. There are three types.
What is irony?
1000
The emotion the writer or narrator conveys in the story.
What is tone?
1000
What is an allusion?
1000
Two households, both alike in dignity
(In fair Verona, where we lay our scene),
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life;
(...) - Prologue, Romeo and Juliet
What is foreshadowing?
1000
"On either side of me, the cotton fields are a glaring green, fat with bolls. Daddy lost the back fields to the rain last month, but the majority bloomed unharmed. The leaves are just starting to spot brown with defoliant and I can still smell the sour chemical in the air." -Miss Skeeter (Stockett, p.82-83)
What is imagery?
1000
"As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte."
-The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde
What is a pun?
1000
A character may be struggling against another character, the natural world, or society.
What is external conflict?