Figures of Speech
Irony
Literary Elements
Figures of Speech II
Literary Elements II
100
Your beauty is as pretty as a rose.
What is a Simile?
100
In The Gift of Magi by O. Henry, the wife cuts her hair to sell it in order to have the money to buy her husband a pocket watch chain. The husband then sells the watch to buy her a hair accessory.
What is Situational Irony?
100
A person(s), animal, or natural force appearing in a literary work
What is a Character?
100
I am happy the sun smiled on us today.
What is Personification?
100
A literary element that evokes certain feelings in readers through words and descriptions.
What is Mood?
200
The comedian is as dumb as a box of rocks.
What is a Hyperbole?
200
Verbal irony is also known as this.
What is Sarcasm?
200
A rival or opponent of the main character in a story.
Who is the Antagonist?
200
I was her Superman, saving her from boredom.
What is an Allusion?
200
The idea, insight to life or message the author expresses through the story.
What is Theme?
300
You're fast; you're a moving train.
What is a Metaphor?
300
In Romeo and Juliet, the former thinks Juliet is dead, but the audience know that she only took a sleeping potion
What is Dramatic Irony?
300
The vantage point from which the story is told; the relationship of the narrator to the story
What is Point of View?
300
Johnny went here, there and everywhere.
What is Assonance?
300
The writer's attitude towards his subject.
What is Tone?
400
How much wood could a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood?
What is Alliteration?
400
A man looked out of the window to see the storm intensify. He turned to his friend and said “wonderful weather we’re having!”
What is Verbal Irony?
400
The main character or hero of a story
Who is the Protagonist?
400
Working Vacation
What is an Oxymoron?
400
In a Robert Frost poem, a character sees swaying birch trees and says, “So was I once myself a swinger of birches. And so I dream of going back to be.” He goes back to the days of his childhood, and then returns to the present and says, “I’d like to get away from earth awhile, and then come back to it and begin over.”
What is a Flashback?
500
A way of speaking that is characteristic of a social group or of a certain geographical area.
What is Dialect?
500
In Toy Story, human characters are not aware that the toys speak and move while the audience is aware
What is Dramatic Irony?
500
The perspective that is told from the point of view of a storyteller who plays no part in the story but knows all the facts, including the characters' thoughts
What is Third Person Omniscient?
500
"All animals are equal but some are more equal than others."
What is a Paradox?
500
“Bishop Aringarosa” in “Da Vinci Code” by Dan Brown is shown to act in such a suspicious way that the readers suspect him to be the mastermind of the whole conspiracy in the church. Later it was revealed that he was innocent and not involved in any secret action.
What is a Foreshadow?
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