Literary Devices
What literary device puts two contrasting ideas side-by-side?
Oxymoron
What is Ekphrastic poetry?
A response to a work of art
How would you fix this misplaced modifier?
"Billy saw a goat driving on the highway."
"Driving on the highway, Billy saw a goat."
Draw and label a plot mountain
Exposition (Introduction)
Rising Action (or inciting moment?)
Climax
Falling Action
Resolution
Queen Mab
What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?
A simile is a comparison that uses the words like or as.
A metaphor is a comparison that DOES NOT use the words like or as.
What are the three types of parallelism in Hebrew poetry?
Antithetic, Synthetic, Synonymous
What is a modifier?
a word, phrase, or clause that modifies—that is, gives information about—another word in the same sentence.
What key moment in history did the plot of "American History" surround?
The assassination of JFK
Who spoke this line in Romeo & Juliet?
"With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls,
For stony limits cannot hold love out."
Romeo
What is an allusion?
An unexplained reference to another work of literature or media, a historical event, etc.
How many strong stresses per line are in iambic pentameter?
Five
What does the sentence below suggest?
"Mrs. Wahlberg saw three moose camping in the woods."
A) Mrs. Wahlberg was camping
B) The moose were camping
B) The moose were camping
Name all four of the short stories that we read at the beginning of this school year.
The Most Dangerous Game
The Cask of Amontillado
To Build a Fire
American History
What did Lord Capulet mean when he said "my hand itches" in Act 4?
He was so angry that he wanted to slap Juliet
What makes the use of a symbol different from imagery?
A symbol is a repeated object used throughout a work to represent an abstract idea.
Imagery is using descriptive language from the five senses to describe a scene.
What is the stress of a word?
The most emphasized syllable.
What form of punctuation is missing in this sentence?
Her mother asked her to pick up a short list of goods from the store _ flour, butter, and batteries.
Colon
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What did the man do to his dog in "To Build a Fire" by Jack London?
He tried to kill it for warmth but did not succeed.
How many people die in the story?
6 (Mercutio, Tybalt, Romeo, Juliet, Paris, and Lady Montague)
What are the differences between dramatic, situational, and verbal irony?
Dramatic = the reader knows something that the characters do not
Situational = Something unexpected happens, or the opposite of what is expected happens
Verbal = sarcasm
What is a two-line stanza called?
A couplet
What is the difference between a colon and a semicolon?
A semicolon connects two independent clauses, while a colon joins a dependent clause to an independent clause.
Name an example of a static character and a dynamic character from the stories that we read.
Static = same (General Zaroff, Montresor)
Dynamic = changes (Rainsford, Elena)
Finish the lines of the famous prologue:
"Two ______________, both alike in __________, in fair ____________ where we lay our scene."
"Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona where we lay our scene."