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