Literary Devices Revision

General 1:

100

Name 3 out of the 5 types of imagery.

Visual (sight)
Aural (sound)
Tactile (Touch)
Gustatory (Taste)
Olfactory (Smell)

200

What literary device is used here?
"a horse is a stable animal"

Pun / double entendre

300

What literary device is used here?
"her smile was brighter than a thousand suns"

Hyperbole

400

Name the literary device: using an object / image to express an abstract idea

Symbolism

500

Name the literary device: two ideas with opposite meanings, contrasted within the same text

Juxtaposition

General 2:

100

What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?

Simile – to compare one thing to another through likeness to emphasise a particular quality (e.g. “strong like an ox, as brave as a lion”)

Metaphor – to compare one thing to another directly to emphasise a particular quality (e.g. “she was a machine”)

200

What literary device is used here?
"her skirt danced at her feet"

Personification

300

Name the literary device: when two words are placed next to each other which have opposite meanings

Oxymoron

400

Name the literary device: when the writer hints at a plot development that happens later on in the narrative

Foreshadowing

500

Explain any of the 3 types of irony.

Irony – when what occurs is in contrast to what is expected, may be used to convey sarcasm

• Verbal irony – when a speaker/narrator tells us something different from what they mean, what they intend, or what is relevant to the situation
• Situational irony – when a person unintentionally does something that produces an opposite result to what they intended
• Dramatic irony – when an audience knows a piece of critical information that a character does not

Sound Devices:

100

What literary device is used here?
"the windows against the rain,
a lifeless body bears no pain"

Rhyme

200

Name the literary device: a word that evokes the sound it is describing e.g. tick-tock

Onomatopoeia

300

What literary device is used here?
"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."

Alliteration

400

Name the literary device: the repetition of [s], [sh], or [z] consonants

Sibilance

500

What is "cacophony"?

A type of assonance or consonance when there is a cluster of unmelodious sounds e.g. kill the joker's kaleidoscopic kookaburra

Speech / Dramatic Devices:

100

What may stage directions be used for?

Stage directions may be used toindicates the tone of the character’s speech, a character’s actions, the setting, the use of props, lighting and sound effects, and other stage effects.

200

Name the literary device: when a character speaks to themselves to reveal their innermost thoughts and feelings, sometimes it is addressed to the audience

Monologue / Soliloquy

300

Name the literary device and what is used for: "..."

An ellipses is used to show an omission of speech, or trailing off

400

What is the difference between an interruption (-) and an interjection (/)?

Interruption – usually indicated by a dash “—” to show when a character’s speech is cut short, whether by their own choice or by another character

Interjection – usually indicated by a slash “ / ” to show when a character’s speech is overlapped by another character’s speech

500

There are 4 types of statements. One of them is "declarative" statement. Name the other 3 types of statements.

*Declarative
Interrogative
Imperative
Exclamatory

Poetic Devices:

100

What is "enjambment"?

Enjambment is the continuation of a sentence or phrase across a line break in poetry i.e., one sentence is written across two or more lines of poetry

200

Name the literary device: the blanks in a poem that is not filled with any words or markings

White Space

300

What is a "caesura"?

A "caesura" is a pause that occurs within poetry, marked by some form of punctuation such as a full stop, comma, dash, or ellipses.

400

What is the difference between en dash and em dash?

En dash – a short dash “-“

Em dash – a long dash “—"

500

Name at least two features of a sonnet.

Has 14 lines.
10 syllables per line.
Has a volta.
ABBA ABBA CDE CDE rhyme scheme (Shakespearean sonnet) or ABAB CDCD EFEF GG rhyme scheme (Petrarchan sonnet).