Literary Devices
A direct comparison of unlike things not using like or as.
What is a Metaphor?
A list, a definition or explanation; a result.
What is a colon used for?
What figurative language is being used here: "time is money"?
What is a Metaphor?
When a word, sound or ideas are used more than once.
What is Repetition?
Who is the text directed to?
What is an audience?
Attributing human qualities to inhuman objects.
What is personification?
Parallel ideas; equal ideas; a piling up of detail.
What is a semicolon used for?
What phrases is being used here: "he was as blind as a bat"?
What is a Simile?
Details after the subject and verb-happening now.
What is a loose sentence?
When someone compares unlike things using like or as .
What is a simile?
Writing sounds like words.
What is Onomatopoeia?
For emphasis; for emotion.
What is an exclamation point used for?
What is an exaggerated statement that is not meant to be taken seriously.
What is a hyperbole?
A question that expects no answer.
What is a Rhetorical question?
A thing that represents or stands for something else is called.
What is a symbol?
Word exchange for another word closely associated with it.
What is a Metonymy?
Interruption of a thought; an interjection of a thought into another.
What is a dash?
Expressions that have a figurative meaning different from the literal meaning are called a.
What are a idioms?
A sentence that has one subject and verb.
What is a Simple sentence?
A word exchanged for another word closely associated with it is called a.
What is a metonymy?
Words seemingly in contradiction to each other.
What is a Oxymoron?
When someone trails off or goes into a dream like state.
What is an Ellipse?
Describe what phrases is being used here: "snakes stop suddenly slipping".
What is an alliteration?
Details before the subject and verb-reflection on a past event.
What is a periodic sentence?
Play on words- use words with multiple meanings.
What is a pun?