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Literary Devices
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Literature - literary device examples
Ms. D trivia
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Simile
What is an expression using "like" or "as"
100
An action or event that hints about what is to come later in a fictional literary text.
What is foreshadowing?
100

"She is a 'brick house" is an example of what type of literary device?

Metaphor

100
All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances[...] —William Shakespeare, As You Like It, 2/7[1] What type of literary device is this?
What is a metaphor?
100

What is Ms. D's dog's name?

Agnes

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He is a bull in a china shop
What is metaphor
200
A smoke detector catches on fire and burns down the house.
What is situational irony?
200

"The trees danced in the wind" is an example of what type of literary device?

Personification

200
Shirley Jackson, in "The Lottery" used the following literary device: "Bobby Martin has already stuffed his pockets full of stones, and the other boys soon followed his example, selecting the smoothest and roundest stones."
What is foreshadowing?
200

This is Ms. D's _____ year of teaching.

9th

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A literary device that gives life to inantimate objects.
What is personification?
300

Saying the OPPOSITE of what is meant.


Ex. "What beautiful weather" during a downpour.

What is verbal irony?

300

What are the two types of characterization?

Direct and indirect

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Act 4, scene 5 - Juliet is found dead in her bed - they all think that she is dead/ she is not dead - "Lady, lady, lady!— Alas, alas! Help, help! My lady's dead!"
What is dramatic irony?
300

What is Ms. D's favorite ice cream flavor?

Maple walnut

400

A literary device meant to express exaggeration. EX. I'm starving.

What is a hyperbole?

400

In the novel, "The Kite Runner" the story begins whe the protaganist is a young man in his thirties living in San Francisco. The story then goes back to when the protaganist was a young boy growing up in 1970s in Afghanistan.

What is a flashback?

400

"I have told you a million times" is an example of what type of literary device?

Hyperbole

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Al Stewart's lyrics from "Year of the Cat" follow: She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running Like a watercolor in the rain Don't bother asking for explanations She'll just tell you that she came What type of literary device is this?
What is imagery?
400

What is Ms. D's favorite color?

Pink

500

Two opposite terms placed together Ex. jumbo shrimp, pretty ugly, organized chaos

What is an oxymoron?

500

Repetition of beginning sounds

Ex Sally sells seashells by the seashore.

What is alliteration?

500

"He is so slow he is like a one legged tree sloth" is an example that uses what TWO literary devices?

Hyperbole AND simile

500

Ambition is deadly is a ______ of Macbeth.

Theme

500

Name TWO of Ms. D's hobbies.

Examples include

pottery, reading, baking, working out, playing with agnes...