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Tell me the Definition
What is this an Example of
What is this device?
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A figure of speech founded on resemblance.
What is a Metaphor?
100
Hyperbole
What is "the exaggeration; a figure of speech exceeding the truth."?
100
The wind howls.
What is Personification?
100
Watch the Clip tell me the literary term. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrRW7RIr0xM
What is Onomatopoeia? A word that is pronounced like a sound.
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Mocking imitation in verse or pose of literary words.
What is Parody?
200
Analogy
What is "the comparison of certain similarities between things which are other wise unlike each other"?
200
He ran fast as lighting.
What is a Simile?
200
Watch the following clip. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naoBkJ4r7Zg What is Personification?
When you make a thing, idea or an animal do something only humans do.
300
Description that appeals to the senses.
What is Imagery?
300
Allusion
What is "a reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work or work of art"?
300
That man is like a fox.
What is a Metaphor?
300
Watch the clip. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3ZcZ2h4Ths What type of Irony did this clip portray? Please Define it as well.
What is Situational Irony? Occurs when the outcome of a work is unexpected.
400
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms.
What is an Oxymoron?
400
Verbal Irony
What is "the contrast between what is said and what is actually meant"?
400
A dove that represents peace.
What is Symbolism?
400
Watch this clip. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3ao3ENqnl8 This was not the real Jackass it was a _________.
What is Parody?
500
The attribution of human emotions or characteristics to inanimate objects or to nature.
What is Assonance?
500
Imagery
What is "a description that appeals to the senses"?
500
The sea what angry that day my friends.
What is a Pathetic Fallacy?
500
Watch this clip. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQL-wEe03hc Give one example from the clip of a Simile and one example of a Metaphor.
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