Literary Devices
Short Stories
Vocab
100

The repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of words or in a stresses syllable

Alliteration

100

The magi is a reference to what book?

the Bible

100

"The strong desire to succeed" 

Ambition

200

Language that appeals to the five senses and uses vivid details to help the reader feel and imagine what's going on

Imagery

200

Which short story ends with a dark ending that we read in class recently?

The Lottery Ticket

200

"Kind, generous" 

Benevolent

300

In the song by Taylor Swift, there is a line, "Romeo take me somewhere we can be alone'. This is an example of what literary device?

Allusion

300

What does the lottery ticket represent?

Greed

300

"to use selfishly or for profit"

Exploit

400

This question will use an example from Shakespeare's classic play, "Romeo and Juliet". In the Fifth Act of the play, Romeo arrives at the Capulet family tomb to find his love, Juliet, supposedly dead. However, we in the audience know that Juliet is not really dead, she merely took a potion to make it look like she was dead for her own motives. When the audience of a story knows more than the characters involved, what type of irony is employed?

(Taken from funtrivia.com)

Dramatic Irony

400

Who performed the speech about the Challenger tragedy that we read in class a while ago?

Ronald Reagan

400

"extravagant or exaggerated (as of a melodrama)"

Melodramatic

500

The magi is an example of what literary device?

Symbol/Symbolism

500

What was the only Edgar Allen Poe poem we read in class?

The Bells

500

"completely new and never having happened before; historic"

Unprecedented

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