Literary devices!1
A comparison using "like" or "as"
What is simile?
Giving human characteristics to something non-human
What is personfication?
"Wearily wandering wolves"
What is alliteration?
An exaggerated statement
What is hyperbole?
Hat Cat Sat is an example of this literary device
What is rhyme?
"There's bitter butter in this batter"
What is alliteration?
TRUE OR FALSE: a theme of the short stories we read is "ethical dilemmas"
What is true?
Identify the hyperbole in the following sentence: "I've told you a million times to clean your room!"
What is "I've told you a million times!"
Language that evokes a mental image of any of the five senses
What is imagery?
Jumbo shrimp is an example of this
What is an oxymoron?
Apparently contradictory terms that appear directly alongside one another
What is an oxymoron?
An offhand reference to a person/place/event/another work of literature within a text
What is an allusion?
BOOM!
What is onomatopoeia?
Direct comparisons that state one thing is another.
What is metaphor?
Define the term "narrator" in the context of storytelling.
The person who tells the story.
TRUE OR FALSE: Dramatic irony is when the audience knows something is happening before the character themselves knows
What is true?
"the wind danced across the field" is an example of this
What is personification
"There's no "I" in team" is an example of this literary device
What is cliche?
What is "point of view"?
The perspective from which a story is told.
A literary technique in which the author hints at events or outcomes that will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?