What is this device?
Moody Poems...What is the mood?
Opposites Attract
Identification
Know Your Definitions
100
She sells sea shells on the sea shore.
What is alliteration? (beginning consonant repeated)
100
The sun smiled down on me as the warm breeze thawed my heart.
What is happy or joyful?
100
Saying the opposite of what the speaker means. Sarcasm is an example.
What is verbal irony?
100
If I've said this once, I've said this a million times: "Make your bed!"
What is hyperbole?
100
The giving of human traits to non-human things incapable of having those traits.
What is personification?
200
She is like the sun so fair.
What is a simile? (comparing two unlike things using like or as)
200
Darkness filled the room and the candle flickered eerily.
What is scary?
200
It was an open secret that he was looked like the living dead.
What is oxymoron?
200
The book was a weight on her conscience; she knew she had to catch up with her reading over the weekend.
What is metaphor?
200
The use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in the plot.
What is the foreshadow?
300
Clouds are ships which sail the skies.
What is a metaphor? (comparing two unlike things)
300
I'm not kidding! The monkey screamed at me; he got out of his tiny monkey car and screamed at me!
What is funny or humourous?
300
My English teacher's rubric stated, "Correkt speling and grammer is mandatary four a A"
What is situational irony?
300
Boom! Boom! Boom! Mr. Brown can make thunder.
What is onomatopoeia?
300
The attitude the author has toward a subject, character, or audience.
What is an tone?
400
You should have seen the trees in the forest! They were as tall as New York City skyscrapers!
What is hyperbole? (exaggeration)
400
Rain fell as I stared into the grey, dreary forest.
What is sad or depressing or dreadful?
400
“Men work together whether they work together or apart.” - Robert Frost
What is paradox?
400
She sweeps with many-colored brooms, And leaves the shreds behind; Oh, housewife in the evening west, Come back, and dust the pond! -Emily Dickinson
What is personification or imagery?
400
A French word that means the conclusion, ending or resolution of the plot.
What is denoument?
500
I must make a confession that in my quest I felt depressed and a sense restlessness.
What is assonance? (middle consonant sound repeats)
500
The day was long and hard, but I was the victor!
What is prideful, encouraging or uplifting?
500
They bad guy who makes the good guy seem even better acts as this device in literature.
What is foil?
500
Video Challenge! https://youtu.be/mxfjSnMN88U
What is allusion? (reference to literature, history, politics, culture, etc. for deeper purpose)
500
Universal characters found in stories through the ages: the outsider, the villain, the hero, the mother figure, the rebel, the everyman, the jester.
What is archetype?
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