Telling Tales
Which literary device is story with a 'hidden' meaning? Characters or places etc are symbols for something else.
For example the game of chess in The Seventh Seal is an allegory for life and death and the fight to survive
Allegory
In the following from Conrad's The Secret Agent, what device is being used?
“Near him, her black form merged in the night, like a figure half chiselled out of a block of black stone.”
Simile
Logos is an appeal to an audience's ....?
Reason or logic
Give me an example of onomatopeia.
Spell it!
Answers may vary
Who is the author of The Joy Luck Club and The Kitchen God's Wife?
Amy Tan
To whom do these famous epithets refer to?
Name all three!
Boxer: "The Greatest"
Politician: "Honest Abe"
Military Commander/leader: "The Little General"
Muhammad Ali
Abraham Lincoln
Napoleon Bonaparte
The italicised word in the following fragment of Wordsworth's famous poem is an example of what device?
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Personification
Which Greek philosopher and polymath devised the modes of persuasion in his treatise Rhetoric?
Aristotle
The writer's choice of words, their dialect, and their tone can all be considered examples of what literary device?
Diction
Which then Secretary of State and future president did Benjamin Banneker write to asking for the abolishment of slavery?
Thomas Jefferson
Which device is being used in this passage from Fahrenheit 451?
"Montag stopped eating… he saw their Cheshire cat smiles burning through the walls of the house."
Allusion
Jesus says, in the Bible, that “I am the good shepherd, … and I lay down my life for the sheep.”
Which literary device is he using?
Metaphor
Which mode of persuasion is demonstrated in the following sentence?
"Please teacher, don't make me run laps for being late. My dog was really sick and had diarrhea and I hadto clean it up and if you mark me as late my GPA will suffer and waaaahhhhhh, waaaaahhhhhh."
Pathos
Which literary device is being used in the following sentence?
"Jimmy James Junior is, without question, the greatest basketball player that has ever lived."
Hyperbole
What award was Kurt Vonnegut awarded for valour in combat in World War II?
The Purple Heart
What is an anecdote?
A short, witty personal story
Like a metaphor or simile, this device explains itself or reaches a conclusion
Analogy
A court calls a forensic pathologist to give her expert opinion on how the victim died.
Which mode of persuasion does this most closely match?
Ethos
Crowded House have a song and an album called Together Alone. The title is an example of which literary device?
Oxymoron
Robert McNamara held what cabinet position in President Kennedy's government?
Secretary of Defense
In George Orwell's Animal farm the events of the story reflect the corruption and horror of a dark period in the history of the Soviet Union and the dangers of power and its tendency to corrupt. What literary form is this?
Satire
What is the connotative meaning of the italicised word in the following sentence?
"It takes guts to admit to a mistake".
courage/bravery
Which lesser known mode of persuasion refers to seizing the moment or acting instantly when an opportunity presents itself?
Kairos
Franz Kafka once said that "A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us". What literary device is this and what do you think its meaning is?
aphorism
(interpretations may vary)
Name one of the tyrants "roused, kindled, and inflamed" Cicero
Catiline, Verres, Mark Anthony