What's the Big Idea?
For Of Mice and Men, you might say these include the American Dream, The Weak vs. The Strong, Friendship and Lonliness, Scapegoating, Broken Plans, or Man vs. Nature.
What are themes?
This literary device is a comparison NOT using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
These five things are known as the five senses.
What are sight, smell, touch, taste, and hear?
This literary device is the impact of the writing on the reader's emotions.
What is mood?
"Juliet: At what o'clock tomorrow/ Shall I send to thee?
Romeo: By the hour of nine.
Juliet: I will not fail; 'tis twenty year till then."
is an example of this literary device.
What is hyperbole?
Themes are typically defined as this.
the primary idea or underlying message in literature, writing, and other creative works. Literary themes are narratives' central, unifying elements that communicate messages about life, society, humanity, the world, etc
This literary device is a comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
This literary device uses sensory language to paint a picture for the audience.
What is imagery?
This literary device is the author's emotion that they put into their writing.
What is tone?
The audience knowing that Mary Maloney killed her husband but the investigators staying unaware is an example of this literary device.
What is (dramatic) irony?
This is a theme usually chosen for Romeo and Juliet.
What is Love, Violence, Fate, Individual vs. Society, Youth,
Authors use similes and metaphors for this reason.
What is help convey abstract concepts, emotions, or complex ideas through vivid and imaginative language?
This is how authors use imagery to support the development of a theme in a narrative.
What is Imagery enables readers to imagine a more vivid picture of the narrative. It gives readers a better understanding of the setting, characters, and overall mood of a literary work. Imagery provides readers with sensory details and rich descriptions, sometimes exaggerating the narrative to provoke certain reactions?
This is how authors use mood to develop a theme.
What is Your theme can stand alone but comes alive when you set it against the right mood. The mood can highlight your theme, emphasize it, and make it resonate more deeply with your readers.
"Thou art wedded to Calamity" is an example of this literary device.
What is personification?
This is a theme usually chosen for Lamb to the Slaughter.
What is you can't judge a book by it's cover, expect the unexpected, Gender and Marriage, Betrayal?
In Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck used these to compare Lennie to various animals, supporting the theme of Man vs. Nature.
What are similes?
Celestial imagery is used in Romeo and Juliet to establish this theme centered on the relationship between the two titular characters.
What is Love?
The tone of Romeo and Juliet is ________ to the plight of the young lovers.
What is sympathetic?
"Lamb to the Slaughter" being told to the reader by a third-person omniscient narrator is an example of this literary device.
What is point of view?
This is a theme you could choose to describe ninth grade.
What is Growth, Transition, Friendship, (many other answers)?
In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo uses this to compare Juliet to the sun to describe her beauty and develop the theme of love within the text.
What is a metaphor?
John Steinbeck used imagery in the first and last chapters of Of Mice and Men to develop this theme centered on conflict in the book.
What is man vs. nature?
The mood of Lamb to the Slaughter is ________ due to the fact that Mary Maloney may or may not be caught for murdering her husband, emphasizing the theme of expect the unexpected.
What is suspenseful?
Nurse being developed as a dramatic, attention-seeking widow throughout the play is an example of this literary device.
What is characterization?