Figurative Language
What literary device is this comparison an example of?
Green is to color as orchid is to flower.
Analogy
What literary device do you see featured?
We shall not flag or fail.
We shall go on to the end.
We shall fight in France,
we shall fight on the seas and oceans...
Anaphora
Crash!
Boom!!!!
WHOOOOOOSH!!!
onomatopoeia
the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region.
Vernacular
The author's choice/style for arranging words and phrases is often referred to as: _______________
syntax
This device compares two things using "like" or "as"
Simile!
The way the author expresses her attitude or mood through her writing.
Tone
The T.V. Show "The Office" uses __________ to make fun of the boring lives of suburban, American office workers
satire
Most children's books are ___________. The stories often teach children morals like "treat others the way you want to be treated"
Didactic
Wise fool.
What literary device is this an example of?
Paradox
Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
Which literary device do you recognize? Hint: it is used to compare to unlike things.
Metaphor
An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.
Soliloquy
Which character is likely a foil to the Nemo's Dad, Marlin, in Finding Nemo?
Dory
"All for one and one for all"
"If it ain't broke don't fix it"
These general truths are examples of which device?
Aphorism
The golden mongoose is a symbol that comes up many times in the novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. A repeating symbol is an example of which literary device?
Motif
In the Beauty and The Beast, the clock, teapot and candlestick all act like human beings.
This is an example of...
Anthropomorphism
Poets use this literary device when they position two contrasting things next to each other for effect.
juxtaposition
My mom often describes me as a "bottomless pit of need"
She is using which literary device to exaggerate my dependency...
“Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.”
The author of this famous song uses _________. They are writing to something that is not there.
Apostrophe
This literary device functions as an extended metaphor, carrying over into multiple lines of a poem or story. Which one is it?
Conceit
The sunflowers craned their necks, turning towards the sun and stretching over their strong, long shadows.
Which literary device does the writer use to describe the sunflowers?
Personification
repetition of vowels without repetition of consonants (as in stony and holy)
Assonance
This device is a literary genre and type of comedy that makes use of highly exaggerated and funny situations aimed at entertaining the audience.
Farce
"The oval office was busy sending tweets" uses an example of which literary device?
Hint: this device uses a word associated with a similar word to convey meaning.
Metonymy
Speech is silver, but silence is gold.
These opposites are the ____________ of one another.
Antithesis