Literary Device
Comparing two things using like or as is what literary device?
Simile - the thief is as quiet as a mouse.
The 'P' in SPACE CAT stands for...
Purpose
In Kate Chopin's "Story Of An Hour", a wife learns of her husband's sudden death due to a train accident. Throughout the story, the wife is first sad, only to realize she is free from his oppression. She becomes overjoyed, but it turns out it was a mistake. The husband's shocking return causes the wife to die of a heart attack. This is an example of...
Situational irony
This is the appeal to emotion.
Pathos
What do you call an object that represents a deeper or underlying meaning? For example: a cross represents Christian values.
A symbol / symbolism
The speaker's attitude toward the topic is also known as what rhetorical term?
Tone
Name this literary device:
"The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew."
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Alliteration
Ethos is the appeal to what?
Credibility
An unsuspecting victim walks into a room where the killer is hiding in the closet, waiting to spring out for the kill. The audience sees the danger and feels anxiety. This is an example of which literary device?
Dramatic irony - the audience knows something that a character in a story does not.
The urgency or importance of the situation is also known by what rhetorical term?
Exigence
Name this rhetorical term:
In To Kill A Mocking Bird, Atticus Ross speaks to the jury during Tom Robinson's trial, based on his reputation as a respected lawyer in Maycomb.
Ethos - credibility
"12.5% of the slaves captured do not survive the journey through the middle passage." - Wilberforce
This is an example of which rhetorical appeal?
Logos
Daily double! Get 800 points if you can correctly label each type of irony below. If you get one, you will receive 400.
1. The news reports that a police station got robbed.
2. Seeing a baseball batter who has an abysmal batting average of .075 and hearing the crowd chant MVP! MVP!
1. Situational irony - expecting one thing to happen but the opposite occurs.
2. Verbal irony - say one thing but mean the opposite.
When examining an author's use of punctuation, sentence length, and clause types, we are looking for evidence of which rhetorical term?
Syntax
Name this literary device:
"Aunt Polly was astonished. Her surprise was complete; and as complete as surprise could ever be. She could not have been more surprised if Tom had told her he had robbed a bank." Mark Twain uses this description to show what?
Hyperbole - overexaggeration
During an interview, the camera keeps panning to Messi's personal Nike brand shoes. This is an example of which rhetorical appeal?
Ethos - a celebrity is promoting a specific product.
Final Jeopardy - Make your bets!
You may bet up to the amount your team currently has. If your team has 400 points, you may bet 400 or less.
Question theme: literary device
The following text is an example of which device (throwback to semester 1)?
Tonight: we fight. Tonight: we give our all. Tonight: we don't budge a single inch. Tonight we are champions!
Anaphora - repeating the same word or phrase at the beginning of each clause.
The use of a word such as 'wretched' instead of 'unlikeable' is an example of what rhetorical term?
Diction or word choice
DOUBLE: identify both literary devices for 1000 points. Get 1 and receive 500 points.
"During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; there I was within view of the melancholy House of Usher."
Edgar Allan Poe's writing shows what 2 literary devices here?
Tone and alliteration
The tone shows a dreary Autumn day / Poe repeats the 'd' sound (during/dull/dark/dreary)
In the text Oedipus Rex, the main character demonstrates the concept of catharsis when he stabs out his own eyes once he realizes the prophecy has come true. This is an example of which rhetorical appeal?
Pathos. Catharsis = emotional release. Emotions most align with pathos.
Write the name of the literary device that the following quote represents:
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
-William Shakespeare
Metaphor