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Parts of Speech
Literary Devices
Types of Readings
Shakespeare
Persuasion
100
This shows an action or state of being.
What is a verb?
100
This device compares two things using like or as
What is a simile?
100
This type of reading is short, with 3 lines following a 5-7-5 syllable pattern.
What is a haiku?
100
This play is set in Denmark, with it's titular character being the prince.
What is "Hamlet" ?
100
Statistics in a study would be a use for this mode of persuasion.
What is Logos?
200
An example of this replacement would be "he" or "she"
What is a pronoun?
200
This device attaches human traits to inanimate or inhuman objects or phenomenon.
What is personification?
200
This type of reading is often Greek in nature and named for its almost excessively long story-telling.
What is an epic?
200
This is currently set in London, England and Shakespeare's works are performed here.
What is the Globe Theatre?
200
Many president's speeches very commonly fall into this type of appeal.
What is Ethos?
300
This type of noun can be perceived through the five senses.
What is a concrete noun?
300
An example of this device is "he swims so well, he's a fish!"
What is a metaphor?
300
This type is a dramatic work, often meant to be performed.
What is a play?
300
This play about two teenagers making rash decisions is set in Verona, Italy.
What is "Romeo and Juliet" ?
300
An example of this type of appeal would be the ASPCA commercials.
What is Pathos?
400
This part of speech describes the intensity or degree of how something is done.
What is an adverb?
400
This device can be used as an over-over-exaggeration
What is a hyperbole?
400
This type of reading is often used by Shakespeare and follows a loose format of only 14 lines with roughly 10 syllables per line.
What is a sonnet?
400
In the play "Hamlet", the title character uses a form of speech that seems to speak directly to the reader and ignores whoever else may be on stage.
What is a soliloquy?
400
This type of appeal applies to the listener's morals.
What is Ethos?
500
This part of speech specifies a location or a location in time
What is a preposition?
500
This device is often a hidden aspect, one that generally references something else.
What is a symbol?
500
This type of reading is an account of connected events.
What is a narrative?
500
Shakespeare's wife shares the same name as a current famous actress.
Who is Anne Hathaway?
500
This type of appeal is the time and place.
What is Kairos?