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Literary Devices
Text Structures
The Outsiders
One for the Murphys
Literary Devices II
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Comparing two unlike things with "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
100
Includes details to help you picture what the author is describing.
What is Description/List?
100
Ponyboy, Darry and Sodapop Curtis.
What are the names of the Curtis brothers?
100
Mrs. McAvoy
What is the name of Carley's social worker?
100
Human qualities to objects or animals.
What is personification?
200
Clues to help the reader predict what will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
200
Explains why something happened and what happened as a result.
What is Cause and Effect?
200
"Nothing Gold Can Stay"
What is the name of the poem Ponyboy recites?
200
"Wicked"
What is Toni's favorite Broadway play?
200
Stands for an emotion or idea.
What is symbolism?
300
Present is interrupted by thinking about a previous event.
What is a flashback?
300
Presents a problem and explains how it is solved.
What is problem and solution?
300
Chocolate cake
What is the Curtis brothers' favorite item to eat for breakfast?
300
Salvation Army
What is the name of place where Carley and her mom shop?
300
Contradictory ideas combined.
What is an oxymoron?
400
Repeated consonant sound.
What is alliteration?
400
Presents similarities and/or differences between two items.
What is Compare and Contrast?
400
Baloney, peroxide and cigarettes
What are three items Ponyboy brings back to the Church from town?
400
Chicken casserole thingie
What is Carley's favorite dinner dish made by Mrs. Murphy?
400
Phrase having different meaning than just what it says.
What is an idiom?
500
Words that imitate sounds.
What is onomatopoeia?
500
Describes events in the order in which they happen.
What is Sequence of Events?
500
"Gone with the Wind"
What is the name of the novel Ponyboy reads to Johnny at the Church?
500
Soxs
What is Mr. Murphy's favorite baseball team?
500
Something IS something else.
What is a metaphor?