Literary Devices
Point of View
Poetry
Excerpts
Figurative Language
100

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

What is Alliteration? 

100

Uses the pronouns “I,” “me,” “we,” and “us,” to tell a story from the narrator's perspective

What is 1st person point of view?

100

A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next

What is Internal Rhyme?

100

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot

Let us go then, you and I,

When the evening is spread out against the sky

Like a patient etherised upon a table;

Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,

The muttering retreats

Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels And sawdustrestaurants with oyster-shells

What is an example of Imagery?

100

 A figure of speech that plays with the words to have multiple meanings

What is a Pun?

200

"Stop is to go as above is to below"

What is Analogy?

200

"Yoneed to wash the dishes and take out the dog"

What is 2nd person point of view?

200

 A reference to a person, event, or literary work outside the poem

What is Allusion?

200

"A brush or shrub that produces flowers, usually red, pink, white, or yellow in color"

What is an example of Denotation?

200

 A state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result

What is Irony?

300

A concise saying that's used to express a customary truth

What is Aphorism?

300

The narrator exists outside the events of the story and relates the actions of the characters by referring to their names or by the third-person pronouns he, she, or they

What is 3rd person point of view?

300

"Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are. Up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky. Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are."

What is External Rhyme?

300

"Red rose is the symbol of love and desire"

What is an example of Connotation?

300

The presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is

What is an understatement?

400

Verbal, dramatic, and situational

What are the three types of Irony?

400

The POV that uses a narrator with access to only one character's perspective

What is 3rd person limited?

400

A division of a poem consisting of two or more lines arranged together as a unit

What is Stanza?

400

"Talking and Walking, hours on end"

What is an example of Assonance? 

400

"Light as a feather"

What is Simile?

500

A statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true

What is Paradox?

500

A point of view where the narrator knows all the thoughts, actions, and feelings of all characters.

What is 3rd person omniscient? 

500

A stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes

What is a quatrain?

500

"I'm so confused my head is spinning"

What is an example of Hyperbole? 

500

An imitation of a writer , artist , subject or genre exaggeration of original in order to to produce humorous effect

What is Parody?