Literary Techniques
What is the term for giving human qualities to non-human things?
Personification
"My mother made the music of milking"
Which technique is this?
Alliteration
What is the name of Harry Potter's owl?
Hedwig
Who is the merchant in the play?
Antonio
What is the name of the main character in a novel?
The protagonist
What two words are indicators for a simile?
Like or as
Crash, bang, wallop
Onomatopoeia
Who are the two main characters in Of Mice and Men
Lenny and George
What is antisemitism?
A hatred of Jewish people
What is the name of the main villain in a novel?
The antagonist
"It's raining cats and dogs..."
Which technique is this?
Metaphor
The repetition of vowel sounds
Animal Farm by George Orwell is based on which historical event?
What is the bond between the merchant and Shylock?
A pound of flesh if the merchant cannot repay the loan
What is the name for an external monologue given to an audience in a play?
A soliloquy
What is dramatic irony?
When the audience knows something the characters in a play do not
What is enjambment?
When lines run on in poetry with no full stops
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a novel that highlights which mental illness?
Schizophrenia
Who does Portia disguise herself as?
Balthasar
What famous James Joyce novel is set in one day in Dublin?
Ulysses
What is "stream of consciousness" writing?
When the narrator speaks in an unfiltered manner from their thoughts
"I wandered lonely as a cloud"
Technique?
Simile
What fish does the old man hunt in The Old Man and the Sea?
What's the name of Shylock's daughter?
Jessica
Effect, affect.
There, they're, their
These are examples of...?
Homophones