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Figures of Speech
Irony
Literary Elements
Figures of Speech II
Hyperbole/Metaphor
100
Your beauty is as pretty as a rose.
What is a Simile?
100
In The Gift of Magi by O. Henry, the wife cuts her hair to sell it in order to have the money to buy her husband a pocket watch chain. The husband then sells the watch to buy her a hair accessory.
What is Situational Irony?
100
A person(s), animal, or natural force appearing in a literary work
What is a Character?
100
I am happy the sun smiled on us today.
What is Personification?
100

How is this hyperbole used?

"I'm the king of the world!"

To describe a feeling.

200

I laughed so hard I almost died.

What is a Hyperbole?

200
Verbal irony is also known as this.
What is Sarcasm?
200
A rival or opponent of the main character in a story.
Who is the Antagonist?
200

When a speaker or writer directly addresses an absent person, abstraction, or inanimate object.

What is an Apostrophe?

200

How is this Hyperbole used?

"You're killing me, Smalls!"

For comedic delivery

300
You're fast; you're a moving train.
What is a Metaphor?
300
In Romeo and Juliet, the former thinks Juliet is dead, but the audience know that she only took a sleeping potion
What is Dramatic Irony?
300
The vantage point from which the story is told; the relationship of the narrator to the story
What is Point of View?
300

The image that something is being compared to.

What is a vehicle?

300

How is this Hyperbole used?

"He's taller than the Empire State Building!"

To emphasize a point.

400

A firehouse catches on fire and there are no firemen to extinguish it.

What is Irony?

400

An author writes a story from the point of view of someone they disagree with.

What is Structural Irony?

400
The main character or hero of a story
Who is the Protagonist?
400

The original subject in a metaphor.

What is a tenor?

400

Which word is the Tenor in this sentence?

The sun was a golden coin in the sky.

Sun.

500

How much wood could a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood?

What is Alliteration?

500
In Toy Story, human characters are not aware that the toys speak and move while the audience is aware
What is Dramatic Irony?
500

The perspective that is told from the point of view of a storyteller who plays no part in the story but knows all the facts, including the characters' thoughts

What is Third Person Narration?

500

What is the technical vocabulary term for Plot Twists?

Situational Irony

500

Which word is the vehicle in this metaphor?

Johnny slipped on the icy hill and his body shot down to the lake like a rocket.

There is no vehicle! It's a simile not a metaphor. (Trick question)