Definition of Rhetorical Device
What is characterization?
The process by which the writer reveals the personality of the character.
What has exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?
Plot structure
Give me an example of a flashback
In the emperor's new groove when we are told of the background.
What is a simile?
A comparison of two unlike things using like or as
What are two types of characterization?
*Bonus if you can define each
Direct and Indirect
Direct -- What the author directly tells us (the characters eyes are green)
Indirect -- What the author does not directly tell us (the characters eyes were like freshly cut grass)
What is connotation vs. Denotation?
Connotation - The suggesting of additonal meanings by a word or expression apart from the literal meaning.
Denotation - The explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of a word or expression
When the author uses the 5 senses to describe something...
imagery
Give me 3 word examples of onomatopoeia
Sizzle, buzz, click-clack, boing, bang, etc.
What is a metaphor?
A comparison of two unlike things without using like or as
What is a pun?
A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of words. A play on words.
What is Mood and Tone and who do they go to?
Mood - It describes how the reader is feeling
Tone - The attitude it describes how the author is feeling.
a similarty between like features of two things on which a comparison is based (not metaphor/simile). For example, Pencil:Paper::keyboard:Computer
Analogy
Give me an example of an oxymoron
Jumbo Shrimp or Living Dead
What is alliteration?
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
What is a paradox?
It is something that is conrary to expectations, existing belief or perceived opinion. Love is blind is an example.
What are the two types of conflict (define them as well) and what falls under each?
External -- sturggle between a literary or dramatic character and an outside force such as nature or another character the drives the dramatic action of the plot. (Man vs. Man, Person vs. Nature, Person vs. Society, Person vs. Technology)
Internal -- Psychological struggle within the mind of a literary or dramatic character, the resolution of which creates the plot's suspense. (Man vs. Self)
An indirect or passing reference of another person or work in literature (the bible, Greeks, Shakespeare)
allusion
Give me 2 examples of symbols from Lord of the Flies and why they are symbolic
The conch
Piggy's glasses
The Lord of the FliesWhat is personification?
the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristic to something nonhuman
What are the different types of Point of View and define them
1st person - I, me, myself
2nd Person - you, yourselves
3rd Person - He/she/they/Character name
3rd Person Limited - Like a news reporter only the facts, knows just what the other characters know
3rd Person Omniscient - Knows everything
What are the three types of irony and define them
Verbal - Speaker intends to be understood as meaning something that contrasts the literal or usual meaning of what they say (nice weather we are having today when it is raining outside)
Dramatic - Where the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character (Women picking up a shell and her husband is taken by an octopus and we see it but she doesn't)
Situational - involving asituation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was inteded so the outcome is contrary to what is expected (cat chasing dog)
Techniques that writers use to create a special and pointed effect in their writing to convey information or to help readers understand their writing on a deeper level.
Literary Device
Give an example of a theme statement from A Tell-Tale Heart
Teacher decides.
exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
What is an euphemism?
A saying that is rude or impolite, but still conveys the concept clearly and politely. Example - You're becoming a little thin on top -- You're balding.