Literary devices
Who said the quote?
Potpourri
100

What literary device do these exemplify? Ex: Mockingjay pin in Hunger Games and the green light in The Great Gatsby

Symbols/Symbolism

100

Name the Shakespeare character that said "Et tu, Brute?"

Julius Caesar

100

What are the three (or four) categories in the AP essay grading rubric?

Thesis, Evidence & Commentary, Sophistication

200

What poetic device is used here?: "Mike's bike has bright white stripes"

Assonance

200

Name the Pride and Prejudice character that said "Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation."

Fitzwilliam Darcy

200

Name the author who became a TikTok sensation for their romance novels such as "It Ends With Us" and "Verity".

Colleen Hoover

300

What literary device is this an example of?: "I must be cruel to be kind"

Paradox

300

Name the author that wrote, "The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude."

Kate Chopin

300

Name the four things you need to have in the top left corner of the first page of an MLA formatted essay

Name, teacher, course, date

400

What is the device in which a character delivers a monologue addressed to oneself where their thoughts are spoken aloud without addressing another?

Soliloquy

400

Which To Kill A Mockingbird character said “Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird”?

Atticus Finch

400

Name the author of the Twilight series

Stephanie Meyer

500

What is the literary device used when the whole of an item is referred to by its parts? Ex: Check out my new wheels!

Synecdoche

500

Which Great Gatsby character said “There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired"?

Nick Carraway

500

Who wrote "Allegory of the cave"?

Plato