Literary Devices One
When words are used to suggest the opposite of the literal meaning.
What is Verbal Irony?
A figure of speech that makes a comparison using "like" or "as."
What is Simile?
A literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.
what is Foreshadowing?
EXAMPLE: She repeated her sister's actions. It was the pot calling the kettle black.
What is idiom?
Who is the artist that sings Sports Car?
Who is Tate McRae?
A form of figurative language in which something that is not human is given human characteristics.
What is Personification?
I had a thousand of chores to do before the the day was over.
What is a hyperbole?
Time, place, and physical characteristics of where a story takes place.
What is Setting?
"A cool breeze carried carnival music and the aroma of popcorn my way. Just over the rise the lights blinked in a million colors." This appeal to the senses and the mental picture are this literary device.
What is a imagery?
What viral TikTok phrase was used to describe someone acting reserved and thoughtful.
What is demure?
The writer or speaker refers either directly or indirectly to a person, event, or thing in history or to a work of art or literature.
What is Allusion?
Anything that appears on the surface to be one thing, yet represents something else and carries a hidden, deeper meaning.
What is Symbolism?
This is the problem in the story.
What is conflict?
He lost his job and became an Ebenezer Scrooge.
What is allusion?
What is our class room number?
What is 17?
When the first letters of words are the same as in: She shook the shears at the sheep.
What is alliteration?
Occurs when the audience expects something to happen, but then something else happens instead.
What is Situational Irony?
The highest point of action on the plot where there may be a turning point or plot twist.
What is the climax?
Pop! Bang! Hiss!
What is Onomatopoeia?
Who won the last baseball world series?
Who are the LA Dodgers?
Words that imitate sounds.
What is Onomatopoeia?
When the audience knows something the characters do not.
What is Dramatic Irony?
The message that can be applied to anyone that you learn from the text.
What is theme?
I'm so sorry....
What is Cliche?
Name of the newest Hunger Games novel?
What is Sunrise on the Reaping?