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Literary Devices Review
Literary Devices Review
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1
Direct or indirect characterization?
Lucas is a polite student.
Indirect
Direct
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What is indirect characterization?
Character traits learned through STEAL
When an author explicitly tells you something about a character
When you learn a character trait by making an inference
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Identify the device:
“I feel like I’m forgetting something,” she says. She shrugs and drives away.
Foreshadowing
Imagery
Metaphor
Simile
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What is a couplet?
Two poems that pair together
Two lines of poetry that usually rhyme
A really cute couple
5
What is a dynamic character?
A character who is very loud
A character who stays the same in a story
A character who constantly runs
A character who internally changes throughout a story
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What is a flat character?
A character with lots of complexity
A character with a few, basic traits
A character who has been hit with a boulder
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Identify the device:
She moved like a deer.
Foreshadowing
Metaphor
Simile
Imagery
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Identify the device:
She was a rock star at our last business presentation.
Imagery
Simile
Foreshadowing
Metaphor
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What is imagery?
Comparison that states on thing is another
Picture in the mind
Suggestion of what comes next
Comparison using like or as
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What is a simile?
Suggestion of what comes next
Comparison that states on thing is another
Comparison using like or as
Picture in the mind
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Why would an author use literary devices?
To trick readers
To spice up their writing
To bore English 1 students
To add necessary details
12
Identify the device:
The night was black as ever, but bright stars lit up the sky in beautiful and varied constellations
Imagery
Foreshadowing
Metaphor
Simile
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What is mood?
Words that describe sounds
The reader's feeling while reading a piece
Writer's words that influence attitude
The same thing as tone
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What is a free verse poem?
A poem that has strict rules
A poem that has no rules
A poem that rhymes
A poem that sounds old-school
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What is a haiku?
A 5-7-5 syllable poem
A long, epic poem
A 9-7-9 syllable poem
A poem that rhymes
16
Identify the device: "
My heart is like a singing bird/Whose nest is in a water’d shoot;/My heart is like an apple-tree"
Metaphor
Simile
Imagery
Foreshadowing
17
Identify the device: "
Aman is a real Romeo"
Metaphor
Imagery
Allusion
Simile
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What is a metaphor?
Picture in the mind
Comparison that states one thing is another
Comparison using like or as
Suggestion of what comes next
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What is an allusion?
A comparison using like or as
Something that creates a vision in your mind
The "paragraph" of a poem
A reference to another work
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What is a stanza?
A "paragraph" of a poem
A line of a poem
A punctuation mark in a poem
21
Identify the device: "
be good, take care of yourselves – and DON’T LEAVE THE PATH!"
Foreshadowing
Metaphor
Simile
Imagery
22
Identify the device:
She smelled the scent of sweet hibiscus wafting through the air
Simile
Imagery
Metaphor
Foreshadowing
23
Identify the device: "
Our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind."
Metaphor
Imagery
Simile
Foreshadowing
24
Direct or indirect characterization?
She punched the man and cracked his nose.
Direct
Indirect
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What is imagery?
Imagination
Something that "tells" a reader something
A photograph
Descriptive language that creates images in a reader's head
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What is direct characterization?
When you need to make an inference about a character trait
When a character is first introduced in a story
When an author explicitly tells you something about a character
27
Identify the device: "
He sat as still as a mouse"
Foreshadowing
Simile
Imagery
Metaphor
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What is enjambment?
Running lines from one line to another without punctuation
Something you put on a PB&J
Punctuation at the end of a line
