Literary Terms
When two things are compared WITHOUT using like or as
Metaphor
The perspective from which a story is told
When the first letter repeats in the words a sentence (example: Sally sells seashells by the seashore)
Alliteration
Who is the main love interest?
Julia
What is the main character's name?
What is the holiday that is happening tomorrow?
Halloween
The main message/moral that the author is trying to convey.
Theme
When an animal or object is given human characteristics
Personification
"Sound" words (Bam! Creak!)
What is onomatapoeia?
What is the name of the city where Winston lives? (the new speak name, not London)
Ingsoc
What is the device that is in Winston's apartment that watches him?
Telescreen
What is the name of the writer we read from and learned about yesterday?
Henry David Thoreau
Tension or problem between opposing forces
Conflict
Where a story/text takes place
Setting
Repetition of sounds at the end of words
What is rhyme?
What's the name of the man that's always on the screen during 2 minutes hate?
Goldstein
What genre is 1984?
Dystopian, Satire, Speculative/Science fiction
What are the 3 different classes that Ms. Rothstrom teaches?
Senior English (this class), College in the High School Senior English, and Freshmen English
An expression that normally signifies the opposite of its meaning, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
Irony or Sarcasm
An extreme exaggeration
Hyperbole
a literary device where a writer gives an advance hint, clue, or warning about an event that will happen later in a story.
foreshadowing
What is the SCARY room called at the end of 1984? (hint: its a number)
Room 101
What is the Party Slogan? (Hint: It starts with "War is Peace...)
War is Peace
Freedom Is Slavery
Ignorance Is Strength
What is ONE THING the Transcendentalists cared about?
Nature, Abolition, Suffrage, Creativity, Freedom, Self-Reliance, etc. etc. etc.
A figure of speech that uses like or as to make a comparison between 2 things
Simile
The feeling created in the reader by a literary work
mood
when an author uses an object, person, color, or situation to mean more than its literal sense
symbolism
What year was 1984 written?
1948
What is the other famous novel that George Orwell wrote?
Animal Farm
What is Ms. Rothstrom's first name?
Ellie