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poetic devices
poetic devices II
literary devices
Linking, active, passive
Literary devices II
100
The trees were guardians over the green.
What is metaphor?
100
The tattletale told terrible tales all around town.
What is alliteration?
100
The feeling the author intends.
What is tone?
100
The dog is a golden doodle.
What is linking.
100
Personality traits of a character learned through inference observing his/her speech, thoughts, effects on others, actions, and looks.
What is indirect characterization?
200
The humming and drumming of the dishwasher broke my concentration.
What is onomatopoeia?
200
The little ant lamented eating steak.
What is consonance?
200
The feeling the reader perceives.
What is mood?
200
We chose to stay up all night playing scrabble.
What is active.
200
"Don't et them pecans. He pizened them!"
What is vernacular?
300
The sunset lay as though it was a sedated patient.
What is simile?
300
Once we were home/ We felt nothing but welcome.
What is near/slant rhyme?
300
What is directly learned from the text through description and narration.
What is direct characterization?
300
This movie is pretty dull.
What is linking.
300
Atticus and Bob Ewell are both fathers, except Atticus loves and respects his children and the law, and Bob abuses his children and the law.
What are foil characters?
400
I don't know how the boat floated over here without rows.
What is assonance?
400
Wham! The fly was dead.
What is onomatopoeia?
400
Comparable characters whose contrasting qualities make their personalities more developed.
What are foil characters?
400
The steak was grilled to perfection.
What is passive?
400
The character or force that drives the action (conflict) of the story.
What is the antagonist?
500
She wrote with the imagination and skill of J.K Rowling.
What is allusion?
500
The houses were silent tombs.
What is metaphor?
500
A style of speaking that is characteristic by a particular group or region.
What is vernacular?
500
The ship is weighed down by too much cargo.
What is passive?
500
A universal idea or topic that is focused on in a story.
What is the theme?