Beowulf
This literary device requires a repetition of consonant sounds. Ex. Slashing and stabbing the sharpest of points.
What is alliteration?
It's the big overarching story that contains all of the little stories within it. It provides the background story that gives the real story an excuse to be told.
What is a frame story?
A type of dramatic work that is amusing and satirical in its tone, mostly having a cheerful ending.
What is comedy?
A stanza or poem of four lines, usually with alternate rhymes.
What is a quatrain?
In writing, the careful choice of words based on their correctness, clarity, or effectiveness.
What is diction?
The literary device used in the "Epic of Beowulf" that determined the existence of evil and good occur simultaneously.
What is theme?
Before reading a fictional text such as "The Canterbury Tales" we often read this type of text to understand it's context. We should definitely expect to see one of these on the NCFE.
What is an informational text?
Shakespeare uses this literary device to allow readers to know more about Beatrice. How else would we know how witty she was, if we didn't hear about her feelings about Bennedick and how others described her?
What is characterization?
This type of sonnet has a rhyme scheme of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.
What is Shakespearean?
A literary compound of composition, which encompasses the attitudes toward the subject and toward the audience implied in a literary work.
What is tone?
This literary device let us know Grendel would die. Take note the following passage: “But fate that night, intended/ Grendel to gnaw the broken bones/Of his last human supper. “
What is foreshadowing?
Use of the word "courtliness" most likely means this.
What is elegant, refined, or polite?
When Leonato said, "Daughter, remember what I told you. If the Prince do solicit you in that kind, you know your answer",
it was an example of this type of irony.
What is dramatic?
The turn in thought in a sonnet that is often indicated by such initial words as But, Yet, or And yet.
What is a volta or shift?
Language that deviates from a standard significance or sequence of words in order to achieve a special meaning or effect (e.g., similes and metaphors).
What is figurative language?
The reader must do this in order to determine the answer to the following question: What does Wiglaf’s fighting the dragon tell you about the importance of honor in the Anglo-Saxon period?
What is infer?
Shakespeare used this literary device when he created a presumably honorable man such as the knight into a rapist.
What is irony?
When Balthasar mentioned, “Note this before my notes: There’s not a note of mine worth noting”, it was example of this type of device.
Pun
"Or, if they sing, 'tis with so dull a cheer, That leaves look pale, dreading the winter's near." is an example of this part of a sonnet.
What is a couplet?
A group of verse lines forming a section of a poem and sharing the same structure as all or some of the other sections of the same poem, in terms of the lengths of its lines, and its meter.
What is stanza?
The Anglo-Saxon period was often know by this alternate name.
What is the Dark Ages?
The Wife of Bath's reference to Midas is an example of this common literary device
What is an allusion?
When Verges said, "Yes they are, otherwise it would be proper for them to suffer salvation, body and soul”, he demonstrated use of this device.
Malapropism
This literary device is often used in poetry and is displayed by the following line of Sonnet 97: "What old December's bareness everywhere"
What is personification?
A topic of discussion or writing; a major idea or proposition broad enough to cover the entire scope of a literary or other work of art. It maybe stated or implied.
What is theme?