Terms
What is cacophony?
Theme
What is the main point of a story?
The main literary device in Plato's reading?
What is an allegory?
"The house jumped in flames"
What is personification?
Two statements that seem contradictory, but upon further thought, actually make sense.
What is paradox?
Allusion
What is a reference to a popular work outside of the text?
The relationship between Algernon and Charlie Gordon is an example of this literary device.
What is parallelism?
"Her face was slender and milky-white"
What is imagery?
Using human qualities on nonhuman objects
What is personification?
Allegory
What is a story where multiple elements are metaphorical?
The literary element that describes how Oedipus can see, but is also blind.
What is a paradox?
"Books can get us half out of the cave"
What is Allusion?
The idea that is being compared in a metaphor
What is tenor?
Vehicle
What is the object that is being used as the metaphor to understand an idea?
When Joe Carp keeps appearing in the scene is an example of this literary device.
What is repitition?
"Out of the black wall before him, a whisper."
What is an implied metaphor?
An object in the story that is actually there, but also has many meanings attached to it.
What is a symbol?
Parallelism
What are two ideas or lines in literature that intentionally sound or look similar?
The idea of death reappearing often in Fahrenheit 451 tells us that it probably is an example of this literary device.
What is a theme?
"a strange fire because it meant a different thing to him. It was not burning, it was warming."
What is a symbol?