Literary Devices
A comparison between two things without using "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor?
Tuna, seafood, perfume sprays in Ms. White's classroom.
What is not allowed in class?
The place that Ms. White attended college.
What is Charleston Southern University?
This term refers to the central idea or message in a work of literature.
What is the theme?
This literary device involves giving human qualities to non-human things or abstract ideas.
What is personification?
The use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
When the outcome of a situation is opposite of what is expected, this literary device is at play.
What is irony?
The time and place in which a story takes place.
What is the setting?
This town is named after two railroad makers.
What is the town of Irmo?
A statement that seems self-contradictory, but reveals a deeper truth.
What is a paradox?
The narrator in a story who is not a character, but knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters.
What is third-person omniscient point of view?
This type of repetition involves the same consonant sound at the beginning of multiple words in a sentence or phrase.
What is alliteration?
A poem of 14 lines, usually written in iambic pentameter.
What is a sonnet?