Identify the Literary Device
Identify the literary device:
I'm so tired, I'm going to fall asleep just standing here!
hyperbole
Identify the literary device:
"Taking an early retirement" instead of "getting fired"
euphemism
Identify the literary device in italicized letters:
"She was ransacking the stores for Jim's present. She found it at last. It surely had been made for Jim and no one else. There was no other like it in any of the stores and she had turned all of them inside out.
hyperbole
Identify the Unspoken Rule of Notice:
Readers should ask questions about images, ideas, or details that are _______________.
repeated
Identify the literary device:
A mild expression used as a substitution for an unpleasant or harsh statement.
Identify the literary device:
"Oh, what fine luck I have!" she exclaimed after she fell down the stairs.
verbal irony
Identify the literary device:
The title, "The Gift of the Magi" is an example of _____________.
allusion
Identify the literary device:
"Finally, on the docks, they found one of those carriages that one sees in Paris only after nightfall as if they were ashamed to show their drabness during the daylight hours."
personification
Identify the Unspoken Rule of Notice:
Character clues, such as ________________, ________________, and ________________ should be noticed as they may predict the shape of the text. (List 3).
threats, warnings, promises
Identify the literary device:
The comparison between two unlike things using
"like" or "as."
simile
Identify the literary device:
Black is used to represent death or evil. This is an example of ___________.
symbolism
Identify the literary device:
"...which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating..."
This is an example of _________________.
alliteration
Identify the literary device:
The literal definition of a word that can be found in the dictionary.
denotation
Identify the Unspoken Rule of Notice:
A ______________ is a quote that appears at the beginning of a text.
epigraph
What does it mean to annotate?
Take notes as you read
Identify the literary device:
Wise fool
oxymoron
Identify the literary device:
"So now Della's beautiful hair fell about her rippling and shining like a cascade of brown waters"
This is an example of ______________.
simile
Identify the literary device:
The use of words that imitates sounds is called __________.
onomatopoeia
Identify the Unspoken Rule of Notice:
Authors often place important information in first and last sentences, or _________________ and ____________.
beginnings, endings
What is a paradox?
Something that seems untrue at first but with further investigation, it really is true.
Identify the literary device:
You've got to be cruel to be kind.
paradox
Identify the literary device:
"Oh and the next two hours tripped by on rosy wings"
personification
Identify the literary device:
When a speaker speaks directly to someone who is not present or who is dead, or speaks to a nonliving object, this is called ________________.
apostrophe
List all ten Unspoken Rules of Notice.
Titles and subtitles
Typography
Literary devices
Apparent irrelevance
Repetition
Threats, warnings, promises
Beginnings and endings
Spacing and line breaks
Epigraphs
Three types of irony with definitions
Verbal irony- something said that is opposite of what really occurred
Situational irony- something that happens that is opposite of what is expected
Dramatic irony- something that the audience knows that the characters in the play do not