Literary Devices Definitions
A comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
The author's perspective or view point on a subject (the way an author wants you to feel or think).
What is tone?
A word for a paragraph in a poem.
What is a stanza?
In the Lion King, we learn that you should not run from your past. Which literary device is a lesson or moral?
What is theme?
A comparison
Analogy
A comparison of unlike objects without the words like or as?
What is a metaphor?
The answer that is being argued or explained in writing or a debate.
What is a rhyming couplet?
In "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost, in line 2 he writes, "Her hardest hue to hold." What literary device is found in this line?
What is alliteration?
What grammar error is found here? "Did you know that these chemicals are not at dangerous levels for human health they may help the bees in the long run though."
What is a run-on sentence?
What is a hyperbole?
A ______ that is not based on a factual or logical analysis, but instead is a representation of someone's opinion.
What is Subjective Point of View?
The pattern of rhyme that is created in a poem that is represented by letters in the alphabet.
What is a rhyme scheme?
What literary device is shown in this excerpt? "The dawn was coming then. All the lower valley was covered with mist. And someitmes little pieces of it broke off and floated away in small clouds. The sky was lighter in the East and the horizon was a thin gold line. The clouds changed from gray to pink and the mist was touched with gold" (Hinton, 77).
What is imagery/sensory language?
The purpose or effect of this is to link two independent clauses that are closely related in thought.
What is a semicolon? ;
The use of sound words in a written piece (must be spelled correctly!)
What is onomotopoeia?
Relating to or believing in the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities.
What is Egalitarian?
What are the two types of Sonnets?
What is Elizabethean/Shakesperean and Italian/Petrarchan?
In "Nothing Gold Can Stay", Frost writes "Nature's first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold". What literary device is used when Frost uses the word "her"?
What is personification?
A vocabulary of specific nouns and vivid verbs to help you create strong mental pictures and avoid wordiness.
What is precise language?
A historical, biblical, or literary reference in literature to enhance meaning.
What is an allusion?
The statement, "life is a box of chocolates" is a metaphor. What is the sentence, "Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you are going to get"?
The second sentence is an analogy because it EXPLAINS in what way the two items being compared are similar.
The rhyme scheme of an Elizabethean/Shakespearean Sonnet.
What is ABABCDCDEFEFGG?
In line 6 of "Nothing Gold Can Stay", Frost writes "So Eden sank to grief". What literary device is found in this line?
What is allusion?
When a writer or speaker proves his or her claim by proving that the opposing side's claim is wrong, false, or weak.