Poetry
This poetic device is used in the excerpt below:
"hanging over my brother's body like a dimmed light post."
What is a simile?
This is a type of verb which acts as a noun and ends in -ing.
What is a gerund?
This word from unit one means kind or friendly.
What is genial?
These two characters argued (conflicted) over whether or not they should push a button for money.
Who are Norma and Arthur?
This is described as tension which is created by an author when they leave their audience to wonder what will happen next.
What is suspense?
This is the term used to describe the pattern in which rhymes occur in a poem.
What is rhyme scheme?
These words are the infinitive in the following sentence:
"I have always hoped to live at the beach."
What is "to live"?
This word from Unit 2 means to beg or plead.
What is beseech?
In this story, Mabel becomes exasperated with her husband, Judson when he insists on poisoning his whiskey.
This is when the opposite of what is expected to happen in a story occurs.
What is irony?
This is the literary term for an author's attitude about a topic. For example, in the poem below, the author is feeling angry murderous. Yikes.
"I hate
that I can salvage nothing.
I can’t skin and eat you, stuff or display
your fur on the mantel."
What is tone?
This word acts as an adjective and is therefore the participle in the sentence:
"The grilled hamburgers smelled delicious".
What is grilled?
This word best completes the following sentence:
Ronald wondered if the large, polka-dotted, purple elephant standing in the back of the room was just an ____________.
What is "illusion"?
What is Lather and Nothing Else?
This is the format you must follow when responding to a literary analysis question or TDA.
What is Claim-Context-Cite-Clarify
This term is used when an author uses two opposing or conflicting ideas to express a point.
What is juxtaposition.
This word completes the following second conditional sentence:
"If I owned a zoo, I __________ let people interact with the animals more."
What is "would"?
This word that best completes the following sentence:
Cheetahs are __________ hunters because they
need to kill other animals to survive.
What is "ruthless"?
This story is about a care taker who feigns innocence after killing an old man.
What is "The Tell Tale Heart"
This literary device is used when an object, character or conflict represents a bigger idea or theme.
What is symbolism?
These words help the reader create a picture in their mind:
"For certain as the raven-winged night"
This literary term is called___________.
(Provide words AND term)
What is "Raven-winged". and What is imagery?
These TWO words complete the following third conditional sentence.
"If I _______ known the Bills would have a better record than the Eagles, I definitely _________ not have told Mrs. Rogers that her team sucks."
What is "had" and "would"?
Marya _________ her son when he hurt his knee.
What is, "consoled"?
This type of Irony is found in "Lamb to the Slaughter". The audience knows that the police officers are eating the murder weapon.
What is dramatic irony?
This literary term is when an author tries to teach a life lesson. For example, Revenge is a never ending cycle of violence.
What is the theme?