Literary Device Detectives
Comparing two unlike things using “like” or “as.”
What is a simile?
This is the central message of a text.
What is theme?
This author wrote Of Mice and Men.
Who is John Steinbeck?
Romeo and Juliet was written by this playwright.
Who is William Shakespeare?
A plot told in chronological order is this type.
What is linear?
Giving human qualities to nonhuman things.
What is personification?
Language that appeals to the senses.
What is imagery?
Of Mice and Men takes place during this historical period.
What is the Great Depression?
Romeo and Juliet belong to these feuding groups.
Who are the Capulets and the Montagues?
A plot using flashbacks or interruptions in time is this type.
What is nonlinear?
An extreme exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
Robert Frost wrote this poem.
What is “Nothing Gold Can Stay”?
George and Lennie dream of owning this.
What is a farm or land?
Romeo kills this character in Act 3.
Who is Tybalt?
Ray Bradbury wrote this futuristic story.
What is “There Will Come Soft Rains”?
Two contradictory words together.
What is an oxymoron?
Langston Hughes wrote this poem.
What is “I, Too”?
This character is physically strong but mentally challenged.
Who is Lennie?
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter is called this.
What is blank verse?
Stephen Vincent Benét wrote this post-apocalyptic story.
What is “By the Waters of Babylon”?
When the audience knows something characters do not.
What is dramatic irony?
The feeling created for the reader is called this.
What is mood?
George kills Lennie for this reason.
What is to protect him from the mob?
Romeo and Juliet is this type of play.
What is a tragedy?
The arrangement of words and sentences is called this.
What is syntax?