Literary Devices Review 1

Grammar

100

The entire town was ________ by the tsunami. 

affected or effected

affected 

affect = verb, action 

200

A major _____ of the earthquake was that thousands lost their homes.  

affect or effect

effect 

effect = noun, consequence 

300

Fix this sentence. Think about independent and dependent clauses. 

As Ferb guided the spaceship through the stars an enormous meteor flew within inches of the craft. 

As Ferb guided the spaceship through the stars, an enormous meteor flew within inches of the craft. 

add a comma after the dependent clause

[Dependent clause, independent clause] 

400

Fix this sentence. Think about independent and dependent clauses. 

Stan swerved the car recklessly into the fence he closed his eyes and braced himself for impact.

Stan swerved the car recklessly into the fence; he closed his eyes and braced himself for impact.

 

Add a semicolon after the 1st independent clause 

[independent clause; independent clause]

fuse sentence/run on- two independent clauses that are not joined properly 

500

Should this sentence have a semicolon or a comma? Where? Why? 

While gazing up at the forest canopy the boy saw birds flutter down from the trees.

While gazing up at the forest canopy, the boy saw birds flutter down from the trees

Add a comma after "canopy"

The comma comes after the dependent clause

Lit Devices (Definitions) 1

100

What lit device is this?

Form of persuasion that appeals to reason instead of emotion to convince an audience to think or act in a certain way. 

Argument

200

What lit device is this?

Poetic and rhetorical device in which normally unassociated ideas, words, or phrases are placed next to one another, creating an effect of surprise and wit.

Juxtaposition 

300

What lit device is this?

Placing in immediately succeeding order of two or more coordinate elements, the latter of which is an explanation, qualification, or modification of the first (often off by a colon).

Apposition

400

What lit device is this?

Sentence marked by the use of connecting words between clauses or sentences, explicitly showing the logical or other relationships between them.

Hypotactic

500

What lit device is this?

____ is a form of understatement in which the positive form is emphasized through the negation of a negative form. 

Litotes

Lit Devices (Examples) 1

100

What lit device is this an example of?

Animal Farm by George Orwell is a political ______ about the Russian Revolution.

Allegory 

200

What lit device is this (definition)?

_____ is the use of matching nouns, verbs, phrases, or clauses to express the same or similar ideas.

Parallelism 

300

What lit device are these examples of?

- The king is dead, long live the king!

- "Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind" - President John F. Kennedy 

- It ain't over until it's over

Epanalepsis

400

What lit device are these examples of?

- "Pride goeth before a fall." - reference to Proverbs 16:18 

- "The simplest questions are the hardest to answer." - Northrop Frye

Aphorism

500

What lit device are these examples of? 

- Alice in Wonderland

- Political cartoons 

- The Onion (YouTube channel)

Satire

Lit Devices (Definitions) 2

100

What lit device is this?

Constructing a sentence so that both halves are about the same length and importance. Sentences can be unbalanced to serve a special effect as well. 

Balance 

200

What lit device is this?

Commas used without conjunction to separate a series of words, thus emphasizing the parts equally.  

Asyndeton 

300

What lit device is this? 

Balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure.

Antithesis 

400

What lit device is this?

A form of argumentation in which the writer claims that one thing results from another, often used as part of a logical argument.

Causal relationship 

500

What lit device is this?

One in which the main clause comes first, followed by further dependent grammatical units. 

Loose sentence 

Lit Devices (Examples) 2

100

What lit device are these examples of?

• “Give me liberty or give me death.” - Patrick Henry
• “We came, we saw, we conquered.” (translated from Latin, attributed to Julius Caesar in a letter to the Roman senate)

Anaphora

200

What literary device are these examples of?

• She smiles like a Cheshire cat. (Alice in Wonderland)
• Does it count if we were on a break? (Friends)
• It was his Achilles' heel. 

 

Allusion 

300

What lit device are these examples of?

- "the great Emancipator"

- "swift-footed Achilles"

Epithet

400

What lit device is this an example of?

-  "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." - Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln 

Epistrophe

500

What lit device is this an example of?

Jane Austen's diction, syntax, rhetoric, rhythm, and use of figurative language is a reflection of her distinctive _____

Style