Pencil
When words are used to suggest the opposite of the literal meaning.
What is Verbal Irony?
An appeal to your emotions uses this rhetorical device.
What is ethos?
A literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.
what is Foreshadowing?
Occurs when the audience expects something to happen, but then something else happens instead.
What is Situational Irony?
What is this an example of:
I’ve been waiting a billion years for this
What is hyperbole?
A form of figurative language in which something that is not human is given human characteristics.
What is Personification?
An author’s attitude toward his or her subject and audience.
What is Tone?
When the audience knows something the characters do not.
What is Dramatic Irony?
An exaggeration.
What is Hyperbole?
What is this an example of:
The big blue bird flew across the bridge.
What is alliteration?
The writer or speaker refers either directly or indirectly to a person, event, or thing in history or to a work of art or literature.
What is Allusion?
Anything that appears on the surface to be one thing, yet represents something else and carries a hidden, deeper meaning.
What is Symbolism?
What is a logos?
A celebrity holding a product adds this rhetorical appeal to the ad.
What is a ethos?
What is this an example of:
"A cool breeze carried carnival music and the aroma of popcorn my way. Just over the rise the lights blinked in a million colors."
HINT: This appeal to the senses and the mental picture are this literary device.
What is a imagery?
When the first letters of words are repeatedly the same
What is alliteration?
A figure of speech that compares two things that are unrelated, but which share some common characteristics.
What is Metaphor?
A Japanese style poem with three lines in the pattern of 5, 7 5 syllables.
What is haiku?
A figure of speech that makes a comparison using "like" or "as."
What is Simile?
What is this an example of:
The triple bacon cheeseburger glistened with health and good choices.
What is irony?
Words that imitate sounds.
What is Onomatopoeia?
When you compare someone to a summer's day, you're using this literary device.
What is Analogy?
A figure of speech that does not literally mean what it says. It has usually been passed down from generation to generation.
What is idiom?
An overused, worn-out word or phrase.
What is Cliche?
What is this an example of:
"I can resist anything but temptation"
Paradox: A statement that appears contradictory but reveals a deeper truth.