Devious Devices
Devious Disney
Symbolic Symbols
Isn't it Ironic
Hodge Podge
100
This is the literary device Poe begins "Cask of Amontillado" with.
What is hyperbole?
100
This line from Macbeth is alluded to in "The Mob Song"?
What is "screw your courage to the sticking place"?
100
This symbolizes life in "Masque of the Red Death".
What is the music?
100
Sarcasm is this form of irony.
What is verbal?
100
Poe is known for this type of narrative style.
What is unreliable narration?
200
This device is used to trick Fortunato into believing Montresor is a Freemason.
What is pun?
200
Jafar turns himself into this symbol of evil.
What is a snake?
200
This is a symbol of death in "Masque of the Red Death".
What is the clock?
200
This form of irony is dependent on the element of surprise.
What is situational?
200
The CSI episode "Up in Smoke" is an allusion to these 3 Poe texts.
What are "The Tell-Tale Heart", "Cask of Amontillado" and "Murders in the Rue Morgue"?
300
The clocks in "The Monkey's Paw" is an example of this device.
What is motif.
300
The Lion King is an allusion to this Shakespearean play.
What is Hamlet?
300
These modes of transportation are symbolic of change or division.
What are trains?
300
This is when the audience knows something the characters do not.
What is dramatic?
300
Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey is a continuation on this archetype?
What is the personification of Death?
400
The names of the children in "The Veldt" are an example of this device.
What is allusion?
400
This character is shown as evil through his British accent.
Who is Scar?
400
This colour is symbolic of purity.
What is white?
400
When Fortunato says "I shall not die of a cough" it is this form of irony.
What is dramatic?
400
Simon Birch's faith is this archetypal hero element.
What is the weapon only the hero can weild?
500
The feeding of lamb to the policemen in "Lamb to the Slaughter" is this kind of irony.
What is situational?
500
This witch is associated with purple and black.
Who is the Sea Witch?
500
This colour is symbolic of rebirth.
What is green?
500
When Montresor answers "true" to Fortunato's claim that he will not die of a cough, it is this type of irony.
What is verbal?
500
Bill and Ted vs Death represents this type of conflict.
What is character vs supernatural?
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