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Am. Lit Milestone Review
Am. Lit Milestone Review
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This is a review of literary devices - in preparation for your upcoming Milestone!
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"Jumbo shrimp" is an example of...
Idiom
Personification
Backwards analogy
Oxymoron
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Deeper meaning/emotion attached to a word
connotation
denotation
metafiction
simile
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The wind's whining woke me on Wednesday night. What literary device is used?
Alliteration
Meter
Assonance
Internal Rhyme
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"She is the type of friend that is with you through
thick and thin
" is...
A simile
An idiom
A denotation
An analogy
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This term refers to the conversation between characters in a work.
Dramatic Script
Dialogue
Dialect
Stage Directions
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"I'm absolutely starving!" Karen said when she went two hours without food.
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
Allusion
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An indirect reference to another literary work, historical event, person, or movie.
Metonymy
Metaphor
Allegory
Allusion
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A word that has the same meaning as the word in question
Connotation
Denotation
Antonym
Synonym
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The repetition of vowel sounds
Alliteration
Assonance
Consonance
Voweliness
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This literary device is an extended metaphor.
Onomatopoeia
Allegory
Hyperbole
Allusion
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An object that represents another idea or thing
Symbol
Theme
Point of View
Main Idea
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This term refers to two lines of poetry that rhyme.
Iambic Pentameter
Stanza
Assonance
Couplet
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In this type of narration, the narrator is all-knowing/tells several characters' inner thoughts
First person
Third person omniscient
Second person
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Choose the answer to keep parallel structure.
"To protect her hands, she will not rake the yard, do the dishes, or..."
Scrub the bathroom
Scrubbing the bathroom
Refuses to scrub the bathroom
Won't scrub the bathroom
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The sun smiled down on the joyful children.
Allusion
Hyperbole
Personification
Simile
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This term refers to the author's attitude toward the subject matter in the writing.
Theme
Rising Action
Tone
Mood
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This is the central idea of a work.
Irony
Foreshadowing
Exposition
Theme
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This term refers to the main character of a work.
Flat character
Antagonist
Protagonist
Foil
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Hints and clues that tell the reader what is coming up next
Flashback
Exposition
Theme
Foreshadowing
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The dictionary definition of a word
detonation
connotation
inference
denotation
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This type of narration uses the pronoun "I", "We", or "Us"
Omniscient
First
Limited Omniscient
Second
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"Her eyes were the sun, illuminating every dark day." What literary device is used?
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Simile
Metaphor
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In this part of the story, we learn about the characters and setting.
Falling action
Climax
Exposition
Resolution
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An author's word choice
Accent
Diction
Dialect
Denotation
