Literary Devices
This literary device uses "like" or "as" to create a comparison.
What is a Simile.
Press a button, get money and take a life.
What is Button Button
The main character is called...
What are Verbs.
The Capital of Canada.
What is Ottawa
Giving non living thins living characteristics is and example of...
What is Personification
In this story, a leg of Lamb is the murder weapon
What is Lambs to Slaughter
The most exciting part of the story is called the
What is the Climax
People, places, and things are.
What are nouns
This ended in 1945 and began the Cold War.
What is World War 2 ended.
"He had the heart of a lion" is an example of what type of Literary Device?
What is a metaphor
In this story, the stairs always seemed like a slightly safer bet.
What is The Elevator
The setting gives the reader 2 important pieces of information.
What are time and place.
These tell you more about the action.
What are Adverbs.
He first made his fortune selling TNT and other explosives.
Who is Alfred Nobel.
Authors or directors give hints about events to come.
What is Foreshadowing
In this story, the husbands plans are reversed over dinner.
What is the Last Supper
Here we learn about the characters, and the setting.
Where is the Exposition/ Introduction.
They are descriptions of things.
What are Adjectives
He created the largest land empire in History.
Who is Genghis Khan.
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
What is a hyperbole
In this story, a character has a blade so sharp, he could "cut a week into 9 days"
What is The Treasure of Lemon Brown
Every story must have this, or nothing would happen.
What is conflict.
When a sentence does not have an action and a thing.
What is an Incomplete Sentence.
This person's accomplishments include inventing mobile X-rays machines, being the only person to ever win a Nobel Prize twice, and discovering Polonium and Radium.
Who is Marie Curie.