Literary Device Definitions
What is Alliteration?
"crack! lightning flashed across the sky."
What is onomatopoeia?
A part or apart: "It's too bad the lacrosse team can't be _______ from campus."
What is apart?
The prompt for your Exam essay (roughly) is...
What is, "Agree or disagree with this statement: Being forced to read certain books in school ruins students’ love of reading?"
The two pieces a sentence must have to avoid being a fragment
subject and verb
A literary device that compares two unlike things without using "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor?
"The tree branches tapped on the windowpane"
What is Personification?
What type of error is in this sentence:
"On Friday I will go home, I'm excited to see my dog."
What is a comma splice (or run-on sentence)?
The number of sources and quotes you must have in your essay
What is three sources and three quotes?
First, third omniscient, and third objective are examples of...
What is Point of View?
A literary device characterized by descriptive language that appeals to the senses
What is Imagery?
In Night: Perseverance, fathers and sons, death
What is theme?
Name all the FANBOYS conjunctions in order
What is For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So?
The MINIMUM number of words your essay must contain
What is 500?
What are:
1. Times New Roman Font
2. Size 12 font
3. Double spaced
4. footnotes for citations
5. 1 inch margins
6. title at center of first page
A literary device that gives non-human objects/concepts human characteristics.
What is Personification?
"Though he didn't know it, it was going to be a very bad day."
What is Foreshadowing?
Semicolons can be used when...
What is when two independent clauses/complete thoughts are closely related?
The five paragraphs your essay must include, in order, are:
What are:
1. Introduction
2. Argument 1
3. Argument 2
4. Rebuttal
5. Conclusion
There, their, or they're: On Friday everyone will collect ______ belongings and depart campus.
What is THEIR?
A literary device that makes reference to a piece of culture (usually mythological or Biblical) without naming it outright.
What is an Allusion?
"The bride's pure white dress deepened to a dark scarlet as the blood soaked it, emanating from the bullet hole in her chest."
What is juxtaposition?
The three reasons you should NOT write out a numeral between 0-99 in an essay are...
What are:
1. When a quoted source uses the numeral
2. When the number is a percentage (25%)
3. When the number is a non-whole number (such as 13.4)
Write out the correct citation style for sources for your essay.
What is:
Firstname Lastname, “Title of Article,” Name of Website, Publishing Organization, publication year, URL.
Name five words that should NOT be capitalized in a title (unless they are the first word of the title)
What are:
1. a
2. an
3. for
4. and
5. the
6. of
7. on
8. in
9. if
10. is