Literary Devices
This is a comparing phrase using the words "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
This is the author of Tuesdays with Morrie.
Who is Mitch Albom?
"It was a dark and stormy night." This type of literary device gives a clue to what's going to happen later.
What is foreshadowing?
This author of The House on Mango Street was only thirty years old when this book was published.
Who is Sandra Cisneros?
This literary device uses great exaggeration to emphasize importance.
What is hyperbole?
ALS, the terminal disease that Morrie Schwartz had, is also known as this... named after a famous baseball player.
What is Lou Gehrig's Disease?
This specific form of irony allows the reader know things that the characters don't.
What is dramatic irony?
This is the name of Esperanza's younger sister.
Who is Nennie?
Also accepted: Magdalena
Some say such special sentences have this type of literary device.
What is alliteration?
This is the nickname that Mitch had for Morrie, going all the way back to their college days.
What is Coach?
This type of irony is basically just sarcasm... it's when what the character says doesn't match what's happening.
What is verbal irony?
Because they didn't have money for lunch meat, Esperanza's mother makes her this type of sandwich.
What is a rice sandwich?
"I don't get it." This type of literary device depends upon the reader already knowing the famous object or event being referred to.
What is allusion?
This type of flower was sitting on Morrie's window sill from the first page of the book to the last.
What is a pink hibiscus?
"The firetruck is on fire!" This type of irony is when an outcome is the opposite of what's expected.
What is situational irony?
This literary device is hard to spell, but easy to hear... it's spelled just like it sounds!
What is onomatopoeia?
We didn't see Rob Schwartz, one of Morrie's sons, very much because he lived in Tokyo. But what was his profession?
What is a journalist?
With this type of literary device, the meaning of the phrase can't be understood by reading the words. Other than that, this question is a piece of cake.
What is idiom?