Characterization
This is the method of characterization where the author/narrators tells us what a character is like.
Direct characterization
This compares two unlike things using the words like or as.
What is a simile?
The repetition of initial consonant sounds, as in the following like is called this.
Harry is happily awaiting Halloween.
Alliteration
Which sentence is punctuated correctly?
1. After the evening of dancing, my date and I went to get a Frosty from Wendy's.
2. After the evening of dancing; my date and I went to get a Frosty from Wendy's.
One is correct. Comma after an introductory phrase.
Two shining arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward. Not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body—he seemed to fill those glistening boots until he strained the top lacing, and you could see a great pack of muscle shifting when his shoulder moved under his thin coat. It was a body capable of enormous leverage—a cruel body.
This is an example of what type of characterization?
What is indirect characterization?
"It is the East, and Juliet is the sun" contains this type of figurative language.
What is a metaphor?
Crack! Buzz! Bang! are all examples of this sound device.
Onomatopoeia
There were a million questions on the math test today is an example of this figure of speech.
Hyperbole
I wish you would mash the potatoes in this dish is an example of what sound device?
Consonance
The weather forecast says to bundle up - a blizzard is coming, so you gear up with a sweater, jeans, boots, and a heavy coat and gloves. By the time you leave work, the temperature has gone from 22 degrees to 65. You are now sweating. This is an example of what literary device?
Situational irony
“I was in a dark room, loud tunes, looking to make a vow soon.” contains which sound device?
Assonance
This passage from Robert Frost's "Nothing Gold Can Stay" contains this type of figurative language/literary device.
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
What is an allusion?
Create your own complete sentence of at least 4 words that employs one of the sound devices. Your sentence must make sense and be original.
Assonance, consonance, alliteration, onomatopoeia.
In MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech, he begins by using an allusion saying "Five score years ago..." To who or what was MLK alluding to?
Abraham Lincoln