An example of what I am is ,"So you are to my thoughts as food is to life."
What is a simile?
100
"It's raining cats and dogs" or "I am so hungry I could eat a horse" is an example.
What is a hyperbole?
100
I am the attitude or outlook of a narrator or character in a piece of literature, a movie, or another art form.
What is point of view?
100
I am concise, address key points likely to be found on a test, am a "must have" when preparing for an exam.
What is a study guide?
100
I am the
•Opposition between characters or forces in a work of drama or fiction, especially opposition that motivates or shapes the action of the plot.
What is a conflict?
200
Shakespeare wrote an example of me when he penned, "All the world is a stage and all men and women are merely players."
What is a metaphor?
200
"Death is an old enemy who eventually catches us all" is an example of what literary device?
What is personification?
200
I love to talk about what I think, what I saw, what I know. My point of view is always based on I, I, I!
What is first person?
200
Always use this strategy when you are unsure what the correct answer is but know most certainly which possible answers are incorrect.
What is the process of elimination?
200
I represent ideas or messages that can be found across time and throughout cultures. My examples are romance, revenge, jealousy, and love.
What is universal theme?
300
I am a a 14 line poem written in 3 quatrains that ends with a couplet.
What is a sonnet?
300
My rhyme scheme occurs within a line of verse, as in "the grains beyond age, the dark veins of her mother" (Dylan Thomas).
What is internal rhyme?
300
"Desiree's Baby" is told from this point of view.
What is third person?
300
On any given test question, particularly a multiple choice test, you must never, ever commit this terrible error.
What is leaving an answer blank?
300
I am the
a.A moment of great or culminating intensity in a narrative or drama, especially the conclusion of a crisis.
b.The turning point in a plot or dramatic action.
What is climax?
400
This poetic form is illustrated by Crapsey's "November Night":
Listen...
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break from the trees
And fall.
What is a cinquain?
400
In "Desiree's Baby, that Armand Aubigny "belongs to the race that is cursed with slavery" is an example this literary device?
What is irony?
400
I know everything that happens in a story from what people are thinking to their inner most secrets and motivations.
What is omniscient?
400
On a multiple choice test, unless you initially misunderstood the question, I am usually your best answer.
What is the first choice?
400
I appeal to the five senses and describe in details
the use of vivid or figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas.
What is imagery?
500
"Harriet Tubman was called the Moses of her time" is an example of a literary device when there is a reference to a person, event, or thing or to a part of another text.
What is an allusion?
500
I am a literary device that consists of similar consonant sounds at the end of words such as think and blink.
What is consonance?
500
I communicate the narrator's mood or perspective as indicated through feelings and tone.
What is voice?
500
Students throughout the ages have found this one act the night before a test has significantly improved scores across the board.
What is studying?
500
I am a literary genre. My content is produced from the imagination and, though may include facts or historical information, is not based on actual events.