Literary Devices
Name the Device
Literary Analysis Essay
Rhetorical Devices and Examples
Literary Devices II
100
Comparing two things without using the words like or as
What is a metaphor
100
Her heart was as cold as ice.
What is a simile
100
The first sentence of your Introduction used to "draw in the reader."
What is the Hook
100
Credibility or an ethical appeal which involves persuasion by the character involved.
What is Ethos
100
The process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character.
What is characterization.
200
Style of speaking or writing determined by the choice of words by a speaker or a writer.
What is diction
200
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
What is alliteration
200
This sentence explains what your evidence means.
What is the Zoom In
200
A method of convincing people with an argument drawn out through an emotional response.
What is pathos
200
A literary element that involves a struggle between two opposing forces usually a protagonist and an antagonist.
What is conflict.
300
Assigning human traits or characteristics to a non-living thing.
What is personification
300
Ms. Greene is as old as a dinosaur.
What is hyperbole
300
The purpose of the Zoom Out is to...
What is prove your central idea or make a big picture connection.
300
A statement, sentence or argument used to convince or persuade the targeted audience by employing reason or logic.
What is logos
300
A work of art, such as a story or painting, in which the characters, images, and/or events act as symbols.
What is an allegory
400
An attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience
What is tone
400
In Cinderella, the glass slippers represent the fragile state of womanhood.
What is symbolism
400
How many paragraphs is Ms. Greene expecting you to write tomorrow?
What is 4
400
Tonight, after a breakthrough year for America, our economy is growing and creating jobs at the fastest pace since 1999. Our unemployment rate is now lower than it was before the financial crisis. More of our kids are graduating than ever before. - Obama's State of the Union
What is Logos
400
Occurs in a piece of literature when the audience knows something that some characters in the narrative do not.
What is dramatic irony.
500
A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance.
What is allusion
500
Boom, splat, buzz, kachoo!
What is Onomatopoeia
500
Your central idea statement must contain these 3 components. (Point for each)
What is title, author, literary device (writing strategy).
500
A political candidate talks about his experiences as a soldier, as a businessman, and as a politician-in contrast to his opponent.
What is Ethos
500
A short quotation that is set at the beginning of a text or section of a text to suggest the theme of what’s to come. The epigraph can be a quote from a famous person, an excerpt or full text of a poem, phrase, lyric, or definition.
What is an epigraph
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