Fig. Lang. 1
This type of figurative language gives non-human objects human characteristics.
What is personification?
Name the figurative language: "In the living room the voice clock sang...as if it were afraid nobody would."
What is personification?
This literary device hints at events to come, creating suspense for the reader.
What is foreshadowing?
These are details that appeal to our senses (sight, touch, taste, smell, sound)?
What are sensory details?
This type of figurative language compares two things with "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
Name the figurative language: "At 10 o'clock the house began to die."
What is personification?
This is the central, underlying idea or message that an author explores in a literary work, conveying a universal message about life, human nature, or society through elements of fiction and literary devices.
What is theme?
This type of irony occurs when someone says the opposite of what they really mean.
What is verbal irony?
This is the difference between a metaphor and a simile.
What is the use of "like or as"? Metaphors make comparisons without like or as.
This is the type of figurative language exemplified by the presence of Sarah Teasdale's poem in "There Will Come Soft Rains."
What is allusion?
This literary device describes the author or narrator's attitude towards the subject. It describes how they sound telling the story.
What is tone?
When the expected outcome is the opposite of what actually happens, this type of irony is at play.
What is situational irony?
Make this simile a metaphor: "At four o'clock the tables folded like great butterflies back through the paneled walls."
"At four o'clock the tables folded; great butterflies back through the paneled walls." (Answers may vary)
Name the figurative language: "The house was an altar with ten thousand attendants, big, small, servicing, attending, in choirs. But the gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly. "
What is a metaphor?
This literary device describes how the tone and/or setting makes the reader feel.
What is mood?
This irony happens when the audience knows something that the characters do not.
What is dramatic irony?
Name the figurative language: "At eight-thirty the eggs were shriveled and the toast was like stone."
What is a simile?
Imagery is way that authors help a reader visualize what is happening a narrative. They use these two things to create a vivid image.
What are sensory details and figurative language?
(NOTE: Imagery is a literary device, NOT figurative language. Imagery USES fig. lang.)
This literary device gives a deeper thematic meaning to an object or animal. The object embodies something nontangible.
What is symbolism?