NAME THAT MOVE
The use of concrete, sensory details to create an experience or mental image for readers.
What is imagery?
The moon was a silver coin tossed into the night.
What is a metaphor?
"Would you please please please please please please please please please stop talking?"
What is Ernest Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants?"
From "Hills Like White Elephants": "They look like white elephants," she said.
What is direct dialogue?
Write a simile.
Example: "Her patience was like a fraying thread."
The deliberate selection of words to create a particular effect, tone, or voice.
What is diction?
The old house groaned beneath the weight of winter.
What is personification?
"...and the suspenders (which you must not forget)..."
What is Rudyard Kipling's "How the Whale Got His Throat?"
Adapted from "The Veldt:" George explained to Lydia that he wanted to shut down the nursery and was concerned about the children's behavior.
What is dialogue summary?
Write 3 rhyming words.
Example: Space, chase, bass.
The technique of withholding explicit explanation so that much of a story's meaning remains beneath the surface.
What is the iceberg?
"I'm not afraid / I'm not afraid / I'm-"
"and when we speak we are afraid"
What is Audre Lorde's "Litany for Survival?"
From "How the Whale Got His Throat": You are a hungry whale, and you discover that one particular creature is still available to eat.
What is 2nd person PoV?
Write one sentence with at least 3 words that demonstrate alliteration.
Example: Pennies, pickles, and peonies are what my baby brother brought to me.
A striking detail that catches the audience's attention and creates a powerful personal or emotional response, a concept associated with Roland Barthes.
What is punctum?
A narrator says, "This is the happiest day of my life," while describing a wedding where everyone is crying, and the bride has disappeared.
What is irony? What is tonal contrast?
"Boarded the train, there's no getting off."
What is Sylvia Plath's "Metaphors?"
From "The Veldt": I could hear the lions breathing beyond the nursery walls, but I couldn't convince myself they were real.
What is 1st person PoV?
Write one sentence using auditory imagery.
The continuation of a sentence or grammatical unit beyond the end of a poetic line.
What is enjambment?
"I'm fine." She shuddered, shifting her eyes from ceiling tile to tile, her hands shaking shamefully.
What is alliteration? What is subtext? What is indirect characterization?
"Maybe I don't have enough to do. Maybe I have time to think too much."
What is Ray Bradbury's "The Veldt?"
The author writes: "She asked whether he was leaving."
What is indirect dialogue?
Write a metaphor describing love without using the word love.
Example: Your name is both dove song and earworm.