Name That Device!
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A word the is closely associated or identical to the sound it describes.
What is Onomatopoeia?
A comparison of two ideas, events, objects, or people that does not use “like” or “as.”
What is Metaphor?
Lending descriptions generally applied to human beings to nonhumans.
What is Personification?
The shadows danced on the wall.
What is Personification?
Buzz.
What is an Onomatopoeia?
A statement that is obviously and intentionally exaggerated.
What is Hyperbole?
A compilation of sensory details that enable the reader to visualize the event.
What is Imagery?
A comparison between objects, events, or people that uses “like” or “as.”
What is Simile?
She sells seashells by the seashore.
What is Alliteration?
I have a million things to do.
What is a Hyperbole?
The repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in succession.
What is Alliteration?
Hinting at future or subsequent events to come to build tension in a narrative.
What is Foreshadowing?
Something used to represent a larger concept or idea.
What is Symbolism?
"Don't cut any corners."
What is an Idiom?
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the Milky Way.”
— William Wordsworth, “Daffodils”
What is Visual Imagery?
An expression that doesn't mean exactly what the words say.
What is an Idiom?
An indirect reference to a person, place, thing, event, or idea.
What is an Allusion?
Usually applied to theater or literature, an instance in which the audience knows something the characters involved do not.
What is Dramatic Irony?
A fine mess.
What is an Oxymoron?
“I wandered lonely as a cloud
that floats on high o’er vales and hills.”
—William Wordsworth, Daffodils
What is a Simile?
A pairing of seemingly contradictory (opposite) terms used to convey emphasis or tension.
What is an Oxymoron?
Language (or a saying) that conveys the opposite of its literal meaning.
What is Verbal Irony?
An event that occurs that is the opposite of what is expected.
What is Situational Irony?
“But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?
It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief.”
—William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2
What is a Metaphor?
(The sun is a metaphor for Juliet)
In Oedipus Rex, Oedipus’s parents abandon him to prevent the prophecy of him killing his father and marrying his mother from coming true. The abandonment itself leads him to fulfill the prophecy.
What is Situational Irony?