Duplicate of Literary Devices from "Lamb to the Slaughter"

True or False: Imagery relates to the five senses.

"I want some potatoes please, Sam"

"The woman stayed where she was, listening to them speaking among themselves, their voices thick and sloppy..."

"Patrick's decided he's tired and doesn't want to eat out tonight. We usually go out Thursday's, you know..."

"It wasn't six o'clock yet and the lights were still on in the grocery shop"

"I might take just a drop to keep me going"

"Wouldn't dream of it..."

True or False: As long as the same word or phrase is repeated within the same paragraph, it is considered parallelism.

A form of paradox that combines a pair of opposite terms into a single unusual expression.

True or False: An understatement is an exaggeration.

"While she was talking, crying and talking..."

"She heard the tires on the gravel outside, and the car door slamming, the footsteps passing..."

"No, I've got meat, thanks. I got a nice leg of lamb from the freezer"

"...began to cry her heart out"

"She could hear their footsteps on the gravel outside..."

"For God's sake..."

"she could see little oily swirls in the liquid because it was so strong"

The practice of beginning several consecutive or neighboring words with the same consonant.

"...keep him walking about on his feet all day long..."

"It was wrapped in paper, so she took off the paper and looked at it again"

"...she saw him lying there on the floor with his legs doubled up and one arm twisted back underneath his body..."

"Probably right under our very noses..."

"Lamb to the Slaughter"

"Her eyes waited on him for an answer..."

A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things using the word like or as.

"She looked at him with her large, dark tearful eyes..."

All of the following are types of allusions except:

Language that appeals to the five senses.

"He's lying on the floor and I think he's dead" -Mary Maloney

The repetition of a word or phrase within the same sentence.

Occurs when an event in a story turns out to be the exact opposite of what the reader had expected.

"...she swung the big frozen leg of lamb high in the air and brought it down as hard as she could..."

"...he kept his head down so that the light from the lamp beside him fell across the upper part of his face..."

"Get the weapon, and you've got the man"

"She knew them both--she knew nearly all the men at that precinct..."

"the clock said ten minutes to five"

The contrast between expectation and reality.

A type of metaphor that gives inanimate objects human characteristics.

Occurs when the reader knows something important that one or more of the other characters don't know.

The repetition of vowel sounds in a series of words in one sentence.

"she sat very still though it all, watching him as he went further and further away from her with each word"

A pattern of imagery or symbolism found throughout a work of literature.

"She didn't feel she could move even a yard at the moment"

"the ice cubes tinkled against the side"

"the two table lamps alight"

A figure of speech that makes something appear less important or severe than it actually is.

Occurs when a person says one thing, but means another--typically sarcastic.

"The doc says his skill was smashed all to pieces just like from a sledgehammer"

"...the whiskey had taken some of it away..."

"to feel--almost as a sunbather feels the sun--that warm male glow..."

"He had now become absolutely motionless...she noticed a little muscle moving near the corner of his eye..."

"One by one the others came in and were persuaded to take a little nip of whiskey"

"God bless his soul..."

"...he was tired, so tired he hadn't wanted to go out for supper..."

"The two detectives remained, and so did the two policemen"

"there was still half of it, at least half of it left"

"...when they were alone together"

A figure of speech in which an object or circumstance from unrelated context is referred to indirectly.

"...she went over to join the other one..."

True or False: Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds.

"...or to his own wife who would take care of her and put her up for the night"

"Is he dead?" -Mary Maloney

"I know it's kind of a bad time to be telling you..."

True or False: The title of the story, "Lamb to the Slaughter," is a motif and a mythological allusion.

An accepted phrase or expression having a meaning different from the literal.

"...she heard the ice cubes clinking against the side of the glass"

"A leg of lamb"

A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion or comic effect.

"There was a great deal of whispering and muttering beside the corpse"

"Keep things absolutely natural and there'll be no need for any acting at all"