English 9 Fall Literary Devices Review

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

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

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

Which is NOT an example of a COLLOQUIALISM?

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

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

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

"blond and pale like salamanders"

"I hold and hold and hold him."

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

“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).

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

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

"Mama dances, laughs, dances."

Which statement is NOT a PARADOX?

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

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

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

“The wind howled, hissed, and whooshed.”

‘Lennie dabbled his big paw in the water’

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

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

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

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

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