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Literary Devices
Literary Movement
Poetry
Stories
Harlem Renaissance
100
This device compares two unlike things without using "like" or "as"
What is metaphor?
100
This literary movement started after the Civil War.
What is Realism?
100
This author is famous for his unconventional use of grammar, syntax, punctuation, and spacing.
Who is e.e. cummings?
100
A story about a woman who lives alone and discovered to have a dead body in her house.
What is "A Rose for Emily"?
100
This author is famous for writing during the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is Langston Hughes?
200
Gives an animal or inanimate object human characteristics or traits.
What is personification?
200
This literary movement started after the end of World War I.
What is Modernism?
200
A poem about neighbors fixing a wall.
What is "Mending Wall"?
200
A story about an old woman traveling to get medicine for her grandson.
What is "A Worn Path"?
200
A poem about a man singing about his problems.
What is "The Weary Blues"?
300
The use of words that mean the opposite of what you really think.
What is irony?
300
This literary movement was inspired by Darwinism.
What is Naturalism?
300
A poem about a destructive wind that wipes everything out except for humans.
What is "what if much of a which of a wind"?
300
The story in which a man imagines himself as a hero.
What is "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"?
300
This person wrote an autobiography about her childhood in the South.
Who is Zora Neale Henson?
400
Referencing something from our culture (history, sports, religion, literature, etc.) in a literary work.
What is allusion?
400
The poetic movement that uses symbolic images and indirect suggestion to express mystical ideas, emotions, and states of mind.
What is Symbolism?
400
A poem about a man who is discussing his love.
What is "somewhere i have never traveled,gladly beyond"?
400
The woman unafraid of a man pointing a gun at her.
Who is Phoenix Jackson?
400
This poem is about people frustrated with racism in America.
What is "Harlem"?
500
Making an educated guess about what is going to happen in a story based on what you have already read.
What is inference?
500
A literary movement that used free verse and was devoted to clarity of expression through the use of precise visual images.
What is Imagism?
500
A poem about a girl who misses her husband.
What is "A River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter"?
500
The theme of the story is that love and devotion can give us the strength to persevere.
What is "A Worn Path"?
500
This writing discusses segregation and racism in Harlem
What is "Heyday in Harlem"?