ALWW
Short Stories
Authors
Literary Devices
Literary Devices 2
1

What year in the book do the two stories intertwine? 

2008

1

In "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" what does the Mariner kill?

an albatross 

1

Who wrote "The Open Boat"?

Stephen Crane

1

Nya referring to the tall red drill as a giraffe is an example of a ______

metaphor 

1

Provide an example of an onomatopoeia 

*answers to vary*

2

What is the largest tribe in Sudan?

Dinka

2

"Spirit Song Over the Waters" compares a man's ___ to water 

soul

2

H.G Wells's first book was a ____

textbook

2

Provide an example of a cacophony 

*answers to vary*

2

True or False: a comma can be used as a caesura. 

True

3

A Long Walk to Water is written as a ____ _______ 

dual narrative 

3

In "The Sea Raiders" what is the protagonist's name? 

Mr. Fison

3

Wolfgang von Goethe's most famous work is a(n)

epic poem

3

What is a motif?

a recurring element that often has symbolic meaning 

3

True or False: "Mike likes his new bike" is an example of an assonance 

False, it is a consonance 

4

What tribe was Buska from?

Hint: They located the bee hive

Jur-chol

4

In "The Open Boat" which character is based on the author?

The correspondant 

4

Who authored the first great work of the Romantic Period?

Samuel Coleridge 

4

How many words are in a Telegraphic sentence?

5 or less

4

In the word 'amended' what syllable(s) is/are stressed?

a/MEN/ded 

"/MEN/" is the stressed syllable 

5

How old is Salva at the end of the book?

35

5

What does Emily Dickenson compare the ocean to?

A house 

5

Emily Dickenson was mainly an epistolary writer, which is writing in the form of what?

Letters 

5

How many unstressed symbols are in an iambic pentameter? 

5

5

“I wore a sweater, and a hat, and a scarf, and a pair of boots, and mittens,” is an example of a 

Polysyndeton