Examples
"As quiet as a mouse."
What is simile?
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without the use of such specific words of comparison as like, as, than, or resembles.
What is a metaphor?
The single most intense part of the story in which the protagonist confronts the main conflict.
What is the climax?
Within "Winter Dreams," the line "silver molasses under the harvest moon" is an example of which literary device?
What is imagery?
The car represents this within "Soldier's Home."
What is ambition and direction in life?
"The wind danced."
What is personification?
The use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, a thing, a place, or an experience.
What is imagery?
The beginning of the story which introduces the introduces characters, situation, and setting, providing background knowledge to the reader.
What is exposition?
What is the theme of "Soldier's Home"?
What is the impacts of war and trauma?
Within "Soldier's Home" what does the porch represent?
What is remaining stagnant/static/watching life go by?
"The wild winds whisked me west."
What is alliteration?
A figure of speech that uses an incredible exaggeration or overstatement.
What is hyperbole?
Events in which complications in the conflicts arise, leading to increased tension.
What is rising action?
What is the inciting force of "Winter Dreams"?
What is, when Dexter meets Judy as a child at the gold course?
Photographs represent this within "Soldier's Home."
What is Krebs unwillingness/inability to discuss his past?
"The teacher gave us a ton of homework."
What is hyperbole?
A main character who lacks traditional heroic qualities such as bravery, loyalty, and honesty.
What is an antihero?
The conclusion of a story, when all or most of the conflicts have been settled.
What is resolution?
Within "The Leader of the People" Jody's description of his grandfather as "sternly merry" is an example of which literary device?
What is oxymoron?
Within the quote, "In the lower sun their giant shadows flickered behind them" from "The Leader of the People" what is the grandfather's shadow a symbol for?
What is the past looming behind him/his greatest achievement being behind him?
"These sneakers cost an arm and a leg."
What is idiom?
A difference between how something appears and reality.
What is irony?
A single event within the story that initiates the conflict, changing the protagonists life in significant way, and ignites the plot.
What is the inciting force/incident?
The repeated mention of Judy's sad smile within "Winter Dreams."
What is a motif?
The protagonist of "Winter Dreams" is Dexter Green. What does the color green symbolize within the story?
What is money and wealth?