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Literary Terms
Literary Devices
General Quentin
Style of Writing
Theme, Symbolism, and Motifs
100
Present action is temporarily interrupted so that the reader can witness past events
What is flashback
100
A play on words
What is a pun
100
Qunetin's age among his siblings (ex: oldest, youngest 3rd born, etc.)
What is the oldest
100
The time period most of Quentin's story takes place
What is the past
100
A symbol of Caddie (Hint: a plant)
What is honeysuckle
200
A metaphorical process in which one sense is used to describe another.
What is synaesthesia
200
Giving inanimate objects human characteristics
What is personification
200
Who does Quentin love and what is her relation to him
What is Caddie, his sister.
200
The style most of the story is written in
What is stream of consciousness
200
Symbolizes cleansing and purity throughout the novel
What is water
300
An informal expression that is more often used in casual conversation than in formal speech or writing.
What is colloquialism
300
The repitition of vowel sounds in words
What is assonance
300
The object he gives the immigrant girl
What is a loaf of bread.
300
The form of writing in which one speaker dominates the conversation, used in Quentin part 2.
What is a monologue
300
A motif that implies the present state of the Compson family is not of its past greatness.
What are shadows
400
Addressing someone who does not exist. Example: "Oh, Death, be not proud."
What is apostrophe
400
Th repitition of specific sounds at the beginning of words
What is alliteration
400
The person that Gerald reminds Qunetin of
What is Caddie's first boyfriend (Dalton Ames)
400
The type of past Quentin thinks in (Hint:constantly reminiscing)
What is "faux" past
400
A motif that Faulkner revolutionized in a way, showing how it is not constant and can be interacted with in a variety of ways
What is time
500
The customs, manner of speech, dress, or other typical features of a place or period that contribute to its particular character.
What is local color
500
The use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech.
What is a hyperbole
500
Type of plant that reminds Quentin of Caddie
What is honeysuckle
500
Quentin doesn't speak about real events which makes it difficult to say whether he is an _______ narrator.
What is omniscient
500
A major theme of the novel (two possible answers)
What is -Death can be an escape to the struggles you are facing -You can't move forward if you live in past