Literary Devices
When a word sounds like what it describes
What is onomatopoeia?
The author “shows” the reader about the character by revealing information about their thoughts, actions, and interactions with other characters.
What is indirect characterization?
What is Ireland?
Arn's age at the beginning of the novel
What is eleven?
A part of speech that joins two words, ideas, or phrases TOGETHER and shows how they are connected.
What is a conjunction?
Appealing to an audience's emotions.
What is pathos?
A type of writing where the author provides their opinion along with supporting points.
What is argumentative writing?
The deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.
What is "genocide"?
The climax and main message or theme of a song. Often includes the title of the song and is usually very similar each time it occurs.
What is a chorus?
A comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
The plot stage in a short story that is the turning point.
What is the climax?
The climax of "The Sniper"
What is when the protagonist shoots and kills the enemy sniper?
The Khmer Rouge force everyone to wear this clothing.
What are black pajamas?
Complete the sentence (it's or its):
_____ supposed to be a sunny day tomorrow.
What is "it's"?
When a product puts down another product to make themselves look better.
What is "put downs"?
A type of writing that uses many details that appeal to the five senses.
What is descriptive writing?
A group of Communist rebels who seized power in Cambodia in 1975.
Who is the Khmer Rouge?
This mindset views abilities as something you can improve through practice
What is a growth mindset?
The device is used in this sentence:
Peter picked a pile of pickled peppers.
What is alliteration?
The character’s personality, fears, motivations, frustrations, feelings, etc.
What are internal character traits?
Who is his brother?
The Khmer Rouge call their group of child soldiers this name
What is Little Fish?
Identify the preposition in the following sentence:
He dove under the water to retrieve the ring.
What is "under"?
The indication that some miraculous discovery or ingredient makes the product more effective.
What is magic ingredients?
A type of writing that tells a story.
What is narrative writing?
A disease caused by mosquitoes implanting parasites in the blood.
What is malaria?
The group of people at which an advertisement is aimed.
What is the target audience?
Identify the device:
I asked you a million times to clean your room!
What is a hyperbole?
The general feeling a reader gets from reading a piece of writing.
What is mood?
Identify the literary device:
"The sniper thought the noise would wake the dead"
What is a hyperbole?
Where did Peter Pond take Arn, Sojeat, and Ravi to in America?
What is New York?
Complete the sentence (Whose or who's):
______ bag is this?
What is a "whose"?
What is logos?
Words that help link ideas in your writing.
What are transition words?
A knife that can be fixed to the end of a rifle and used as a weapon.
What is a bayonet?
The media technique that “everyone” is doing it and that if you want to be a part of that group, you should do it too.
What is "Bandwagon"?
Hints or clues that are placed early on in a story that will suggest what will happen later.
What is foreshadowing?
The main character in a story.
What is the protagonist?
Identify the device:
"Machine guns and rifles broke the silence of the night, like dogs barking on lone farms"
What is a simile?
The instrument Arn learned to play for the Khmer Rouge
What is a khim?
Identify the italicized part of speech in this sentence:
He pet the cat's soft fur while it purred.
What is an adjective?
The suggestion that figures and statistics prove a point beyond dispute.
Using clues/evidence from the text to come to a conclusion.
What is an inference?
A wooden string instrument.
What is a khim?
The author of Never Fall Down.
Who is Patricia McCormick?