Literary devices
Monster
Persuasive Discursive Imaginative
The Language of Love
MacBeth
100

What literary device compares two things using “like” or “as”?

What is a simile?

100

What is the full name of the main character?

Who is Steve Harmon?

100

Which text type tries to convince the audience of a viewpoint?

What is persuasive?

100

What do you call the repeating pattern of sounds in a poem, such as ABAB?

What is rhyme scheme?

100

Who wrote Macbeth?

Who is William Shakespeare?

200

What do we call giving human traits to non-human things?

What is personification?

200

What two things is Steve on trial for?

What is murder / being the lookout in a robbery that turned into murder?

200

Which text type presents multiple sides of an issue without bias?

What is discursive?

200

What is a haiku’s syllable structure?

What is 5-7-5?

200

What is the name of Macbeth’s wife?

Who is Lady Macbeth?

300

“The wind whispered through the trees.” What device is used here?

What is personification?

300

What two types of writing styles are used for most of the novel?

What is a screenplay/diary format?

300

Name three diffrent purposes that imaginative texts can have?

What is to entertain, to warn, to teach.

300

What is enjambment in poetry?

What is when a sentence continues beyond the end of a line or stanza?

300

Name one Shakespearean tragedy other than Macbeth.

What is Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello.

400

What is it called when a word sounds like the noise it represents, like bang or sizzle?

What is onomatopoeia?

400

What theme is explored through Steve’s fear of being seen as a “monster”?

What is prejudice/ discrimination within the justice system?

400

What key language feature is commonly used in persuasive writing to appeal to emotions?

What is emotive language?

400

what are the five diffrent types of sensory imagery?

what is auditory, visual, gustatory, olfactory and tactile.

400

What was the name of Shakespeare’s theatre?

What is The Globe?

500

Identify two devices in this sentence: “His words cut deeper than knives, a storm raging behind every phrase.”

What are metaphor and imagery?

500

How does the format of Monster challenge our trust in the narrator?

What is it’s a first-person unreliable narrator / use of film techniques to present biased perspectives?

500

Name a key difference between discursive and persuasive texts.

What is one explores, one convinces?

500

What is the term for a pause in the middle of a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation?

What is a caesura?

500

What is one key theme often found in Shakespeare’s tragedies?

What is ambition, fate, betrayal, or the supernatural?