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Comparing two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"
Simile
he was alone in this world of A.D. 2053, or as good as alone, and with a final decision made, a path selected, he would stride off, sending patterns of frosty air before him like the smoke of a cigar.
What story is this from? And what literary device is present?
The Pedestrian; Simile
Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
What poem is this from? What literary device is present?
Ozymandias; Imagery/Diction
The lottery was conducted—as were the square dances, the teen-age club, the Halloween program—by Mr. Summers, who had time and energy to devote to civic activities. He was a round-faced, jovial man and he ran the coal business, and people were sorry for him, because he had no children and his wife was a scold.
What story is this from? What literary device is present here?
The Lottery; Direct and Indirect Characterization
The use of descriptive language to evoke mental images or sensory experiences
Imagery
When the author explicitly describes a character's qualities through narration, dialogue, or self-descriptions
Direct characterization
There was a story that the present box had been made with some pieces of the box that had preceded it, the one that had been constructed when the first people settled down to make a village here.
What story is this from? What literary device is present?
The Lottery; Motif/Symbolism
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
What literary device is present here?
And on his way he would see the cottages and homes with their dark windows, and it was not unequal to walking through a graveyard where only the faintest glimmers of firefly light appeared in flickers behind the windows.
What story is this from? What literary device is present?
The Pedestrian; Simile and Imagery
The struggle that drives the action of the story
Conflict
Giving human characteristics or abilities to non-human things
Personification
Everything went on in the tomblike houses at night now, he thought, continuing his fancy. The tombs, ill-lit by television light, where the people sat like the dead, the gray or multicolored lights touching their faces, but never really touching them.
What story is this from? What literary device is present?
The Pedestrian; Simile, Metaphor, Imagery
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
What literary device is used here?
Personification
Diction
Color Symbolism
He listened to the faint push of his soft shoes through autumn leaves with satisfaction, and whistled a cold quiet whistle between his teeth, occasionally picking up a leaf as he passed, examining its skeletal pattern in the infrequent lamplights as he went on, smelling its rusty smell.
What story is this from? And what literary devices is present?
The Pedestrian; Imagery
Comparing two unlike things without using the words "like" or "as"
Metaphor
A recurring element, such as an image, idea, or symbol, that helps to reinforce the central themes of a story
"Your name?" said the police car in a metallic whisper.
What story is this from? What literary device is present?
The Pedestrian; Personification OR Diction
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
What poem is this from? What literary device is present?
Ozymandias; Personification
Old Man Warner snorted. “Pack of crazy fools,” he said. “Listening to the young folks, nothing’s good enough for them. Next thing you know, they’ll be wanting to go back to living in caves, nobody work any more, live that way for a while. Used to be a saying about ‘Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon.’ First thing you know, we’d all be eating stewed chickweed and acorns. There’s always been a lottery,” he added petulantly. “Bad enough to see young Joe Summers up there joking with everybody.”'
What do we learn indirectly about Old Man Warner? Think indirect characterization.
- thinks that the lottery tradition should continue
- doesn't like change
When the author reveals character traits through actions, thoughts, dialogue, appearance, etc and we are left to infer things about the character
Indirect characterization
Situational irony
The villagers kept their distance, leaving a space between themselves and the stool, and when Mr. Summers said, “Some of you fellows want to give me a hand?,” there was a hesitation before two men, Mr. Martin and his oldest son, Baxter, came forward to hold the box steady on the stool while Mr. Summers stirred up the papers inside it.
What story is this from? What literary device is present?
The Lottery; Foreshadowing
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains.
What literary device is present here?
Situational Irony
By now, all through the crowd there were men holding the small folded papers in their large hands, turning them over and over nervously.
What story is this from? What literary device is present?
Foreshadowing -- nervous emotions
The use of clues to hint at what is going to happen later in the plot
Foreshadowing