Literary Devices 1
"Paps slammed the dashboard with his palm... slow and stead, as if he was beating down a nail" is _______ type of literary device.
What is a simile?
The last paragraph of an essay is called the _______.
What is the conclusion?
This food is grown in a large field called a paddy.
What is rice?
What is onomatopoeia?
If an essay has three body paragraphs, the thesis should have _____ (number) of main points.
What is three?
Horses cannot do this ______ (bodily function) that you might do when you're feeling sick.
What is throw up?
In the scene in "Heritage" in which Paps is dancing in the kitchen, the author uses __________ literary device. Ex: "Paps turned the stereo even louder, so loud that if we screamed, no one would have heard, so loud that Paps felt far away and hard to get to, even though he was right there in front of us."
What is imagery or sensory detail?
There are ___ BODY paragraphs in a five paragraph essay.
What are 3 body paragraphs?
If you were going on a road trip from here to California, what direction would you be driving in?
In Mother to Son, Langston Hughes uses __________ literary device to compare life to stairs.
What is an extended metaphor?
The thesis statement goes at the end of the _______ paragraph.
What is the intro?
This man is the mayor of Somerville.
Who is Jake Wilson?
In "Heritage," the narrator asks Paps about a light in a cage. The caged light could symbolize ....
HINT: think about how Paps is feeling at the end of the story.
The way in which Paps feels "caged" by his family's circumstances.*
*I will accept other well-reasoned responses!
The first sentence of a body paragraph is called the _____.
What is the topic sentence?
This giant, multi-year construction project changed Boston forever by burying the central artery (a big highway) underground.
What is The Big Dig?