Definitions 1
The literary device that refers to the use of symbols in a literary work.
What is symbolism?
A literary device that uses figure of speech to allow human attributes to be assigned to a nonhuman thing.
What is personification?
The use of words in a way that deviates from the conventional order and meaning in order to convey a complicated meaning.
What is figurative language?
Emily Dickinson, 'Hope' is the thing with feathers
What is an example of an extended metaphor?
"The coffee shop is an ice box!" This is a type of f________e l________e.
What is an example of figurative language?
The literary device that creates heightened effect through deliberate exaggeration.
The literary device that makes a comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph.
What is an extended metaphor?
The tree was dancing in the wind.
What is an example of personification?
She was a troublemaker at home but everyone at school called her brilliant.
What is an example of a paradox?
The literary device that uses narration or description in which events, actions, characters, settings or objects to represent specific abstractions or ideas.
What is allegory?
The literary device that uses an expression in which it is designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
What is allusion?
“That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."-Neil Armstrong
What is an example of parallelism?
As the feather flew away, it symbolized Jessica finding hope and finding where she is supposed to be.
What is an example of symbolism?
Pretty ugly.
What is an example of an oxymoron?
The literary device in which one object or idea takes the place of another with which it has a close association
What is metonymy?
The figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.
What is oxymoron?
She got her allusion from the bible.
What is an example of a source of allusion?
He screamed so loud that the house shook.
What is an example of a hyperbole?
If I'm not home by midnight, my car might turn into a pumpkin.
What is an example of an allusion?
A seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true.
What is Paradox?
A balance within one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure.
What is parallelism?
Bonus question- The type of literature responsible for letters, diaries, and journals that are not from America or Africa or Asia.
What is European Literature?
The pen is mightier than the sword.
What is an example of a metonymy?
The author had the characters fighting and throwing rocks at each other. But, the deeper meaning is that the war is coming and bombs will soon come as well.
What is an example of allegory?