Literary & Sound Devices

"They paved paradise and put up a parking lot with a pink hotel."

This video clip is an example of which device?

"when something nonhuman is given human characteristics"

"Pow!"

"The acrid smoke of burning plastic caused us to involuntarily cover our nose and mouth."

"exaggeration"

"repetition of the beginning consonant sound"

"Chaos is a friend of mine." Bob Dylan

"Baby, you're a firework!"

"Yo' mama is so ugly that she makes blind kids cry."

"Smooth move, Mr. Hunt," hissed Ms. Lynch as Mr. Hunt tripped and spilled his coffee.

"This is the best day EVER!"

"I could smell the buttery, chocolaty warmth of the cookies just out of the oven."

"Bed, Bath, & Beyond"

"when a speaker says one thing and means another"

"Fraka-kaka-kaka-kaka-kow!"

"when something happens and a reversal of expectations occurs"

"The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew.

"Life is like a box of chocolates."

"when an event occurs in a narrative which the audience understands, but the characters do not"

"when a word imitates the sound it represents"

"Opportunity may knock, but it seldom nags."

"All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind"

"A good conscience is a continual Christmas."

"Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes, one within the other, that come from the East"

"Dying is a wild night and a new road."

What type of irony is being described here?

"Mr. Hunt is so old he rode a dinosaur to school."

"Demonic dancer delivers death-defying dance to a damsel in distress."

"Time and tide waits for no one."

"Macho Mario, Luxurious Luigi, Princess Peach, Tall Toad"

"I'll love you, dear, until China and Africa meet."

"direct comparison using like or as"

"What type of irony is depicted in the picture?"

The chorus of this song is an example of which literary device?

"The earth hath swallowed all my hopes."

"Mickey Mouse"

"when an author hints at what's to come"

This cartoon is/isn't an example of which type of irony?

"language that appeals to one or more of the five senses; smell, taste, touch, hear, see"

"and snow lay here and there in the hollow of the banks, like a lady’s gloves forgotten"

"The water made a sound like kittens lapping."

"Nature abhors a vacuum."

"a part of a story or a movie that describes or shows something that happened in the past"

"The golden rays of the setting sun reflected upon the clear waters of the lake."

"an implied comparison of two things...NOT using like or as"

"What device is being used here to build suspense?"

"Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me."