English 9 Fall Literary Devices Review

Which statement is NOT a PARADOX?

‘Lennie dabbled his big paw in the water’

“The snoring, the rain, and Mama’s hair that smells like bread.”

"Windows so small you'd think they were holding their breath"

"He was a bag of bones, a floppy doll, a broken stick, a maniac."

"Only trees and more trees and plenty of blue sky."

TRUE or FALSE? The literary term DIALECT refers to a conversation between two characters.

"There was a clang of horseshoe on iron stake outside and a little cheer of voices."

"I hold and hold and hold him."

Which literary term is defined as "a characterizing word or phrase that replaces the name of a person or thing"

The big sycamore by the creek was gone. The willow tangle was gone. The little enclave of untrodden bluegrass was gone."

“I knew then I had to have a house. A real house...But this isn’t it. The house on Mango Street isn’t it” (5).

"Mama dances, laughs, dances."

"She is the color of a bar of naphtha laundry soap."

JUXTAPOSITION involves placing two or more things side by side in order to . . .

TRUE or FALSE: Lennie and George are literary FOILS of each other.

True or False: Literary FOILS are characters who are enemies of one another.

Which is NOT an example of a COLLOQUIALISM?

“My Papa’s hair is like a broom, all up in the air.”

“The wind howled, hissed, and whooshed.”

"blond and pale like salamanders"

“Until then I am a red balloon, a balloon tied to an anchor.”

The next minute Curley was flopping like a fish on a line, and his closed fist was lost in Lennie's big hand.

"It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden, too like the lightning."

“It mean sadness. It means waiting. It is like the number nine...It is the Mexican records my father plays . . . ."