Literary Devices
A series of words that start with the same letter or sound.
What is Alliteration?
Uses human traits to describe non-human things.
What is Personification?
At the beginning of the novel, Sherlock sees Watson through this.
What is a coffee pot?
I have plagued the Baskerville family.
What is a Hound?
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
Footsteps
A universal symbol that brings familiarity and context to a story
What is Archetype?
The mode of narration in the story. Depending on which mode the author uses, this will have a different effect on the reader.
What is Point of View?
CCH
What is Charing Cross Hospital?
I am in the pocket of Dr. Mortimer when I enter the room. Sherlock has already noticed me. I look as though I am from the early eighteenth century.
What is a manuscript?
A man calls his dog from the opposite side of the river. The dog crosses the river without getting wet, and without using a bridge or boat. How?
The river was frozen.
The readers know more about the situation going on than at least one of the characters involved.
What is Dramatic Irony?
Used to make fun of some aspect of human nature or society usually through exaggeration, ridicule or irony.
What is Satire?
The importance of the walking stick.
Does it establish the relationship between Sherlock and Watson?
I have suffered a sudden and tragic death. No one understands what happened to me, but I believe it is what I feared.
Who is Sir Charles Baskerville?
What breaks yet never falls, and what falls yet never breaks?
Day and Night
An exaggerated statement that emphasizes the significance of the statement's actual meaning
What is a Hyperbole?
the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid. For example, she was as brave as a lion.
What is a Simile?
"It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light." (Chapter 1)
I am a ______
Is this is a metaphor?
I am always hungry and will die if not fed, but whatever I touch will soon turn red. What am I?
Fire
What is oxymoron?
This is an example of a _______.
They are shining stars.
What is a Metaphor?
With pointed fangs, I sit and wait; with piercing force, I crunch out fate; grabbing victims, proclaiming might; physically joining with a single bite. What am I?
A stapler