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Literary Devices
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Identify the device: Opportunity is knocking at your door. Will you answer it?
Personification
Oxymoron
Imagery
Metaphor
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Identify the device: A man, whom is a traffic cop, is arrested for unpaid parking tickets.
Irony
Symbolism
Imagery
Hyperbole
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What is a paradox?
An exaggeration used to prove a point
Comparing two unlike things without using "like" or "as"
Something has the opposite meaning of its intended meaning
A puzzling statement
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Identify device: I perceived a host of golden daffodils fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Imagery
Personification
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What is assonance?
the mood the reader feels when reading a work
the overall message of the story
multiple words that have the same beginning vowel sound
multiple words that have the same beginning consonant sound
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Apples are always available at a grocery store.
Alliteration
Assonance
Imagery
Metaphor
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Identify the Device: Gatsby represents the American Dream.
Hyperbole
Symbolism
Simile
Metaphor
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What is point of view?
When the author paints a picture in the reader's mind
The time and place that a story occurs
When the author explains an event that has already happened
The perspective from which a story is told
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What is theme?
the perspective from which a story is told
the overall message of the story
the mood that the author evokes in the reader
the setting of the story
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Identify the literary device: He is as skinny as a toothpick.
Hyperbole
Imagery
Symbolism
Simile
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Identify the literary device: His story is a real Cinderella story.
Hyperbole
Allusion
Metaphor
Simile
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What is conflict?
the most exciting part of the story
the time and place where a story occurs
the overall message of the story
when two opposing forces meet
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Identify the device: Those kids are creatures.
Imagery
Simile
Metaphor
Symbolism
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what is alliteration?
multiple words contain the same beginning consonant sound
multiple words containing the same beginning vowel sound
the overall message of the story
multiple words that rhyme
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What is characterization?
the way a character is developed through action or dialogue
an object that represents a deeper meaning
extreme exaggeration used to make a point
the comparison between two unlike things
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Identify the device: Mr. Delles assigns a ton of homework every night.
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Symbolism
Imagery
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What is personification?
The overall message of the story
The turning point of the story
Giving an inanimate object human qualities
When words from multiple lines rhyme together
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What is a simile?
comparing two unlike things using like or as
extreme exaggeration used to prove a point
the time and place that a story occurs
comparing two unlike things not using like or as
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Identify the literary device: This car goes faster than the speed of light.
Personification
Metaphor
Simile
Hyperbole
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What is tone?
the way a character is developed through action or dialogue
the problem that occurs in a work
the author's attitude toward a work
the general atmosphere created by the author's words
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What is a metaphor?
A comparison of two objects using "like" or "as"
an extreme exaggeration
A comparison of two objects without using "like" or "as"
the perspective from which a story is told
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Identify the literary device: I felt as light as a feather
Imagery
Simile
Personification
Metaphor
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What is foreshadow?
the time and place that a story occurs
giving in inanimate object human characteristics
an event that has already happened
an event that will happen in the future
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What is imagery?
comparing two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"
comparing two unlike things without using "like" or "as"
an extreme exaggeration used to prove a point
descriptive language to paint a picture in the reader's mind
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Identify the device: You have to spend money to make money. I know one thing: I know nothing.
Paradox
Oxymoron
Simile
Metaphor
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several cackling cats are crouching creepily.
Symbolism
Metaphor
Assonance
Alliteration
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Identify the device: seriously funny; found missing; living dead; jumbo shrimp
Oxymoron
Simile
Metaphor
Imagery
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What is flashback?
beginning multiple words with the same sound
an event that will happen in the future
When an author explains an event that has already happened
an extreme exaggeration
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What is internal conflict?
conflict that happens between two people
conflict between a person and nature
conflict that occurs within a character's head
conflict that happens inside a character's house
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What is symbolism?
a work that resembles a memory for the author
the persepective from which a story is told
an object that represents a deeper meaning
a conversation between two individuals
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What is mood?
the author's attitude toward the work
a problem that occurs in a story
the general atmosphere created by the author's words
the way a character is developed through action or dialog
