Literary Devices Study Guide

What is Allegory?

• A work that symbolizes or represents an idea or event

• A comparison of two things to show that they are alike in certain respects

• a brief story that focuses on a single interesting incident or event in order to make a point

• Clues that hint at what is going to happen later in the plot

Match the following

• a reference to a statement, person, place, event, or thing

• Analogy

• a brief story that focuses on a single interesting incident or event, in order to make a point

• Allusion

• a comparison of two things to show that they are alike

• Assonance

• the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds in words

• Anecdote

• the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words that are close to one another

• Alliteration

A conflict is a struggle or clash between opposing characters, forces, or emotion

• True

• False

Which of the following is the correct definition of Connotation

• all the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests

• the literal dictionary definition of words

• comparing two liked objects

• "Don't be a jerk, its Christmas?"

Match the following

• a scene that interrupts the present action of the plot to tell what happened at an earlier time

• Flashback

• the literal, dictionary definition of a word

• Denotation

• a metaphor that is developed over several lines throughout the paragraph

• Diction

• a writer/speaker's choice of words

• Dialect

• a way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular region or group of people

• Extended Metaphor

What is a 'clue that hints at what is going to happen later in the plot?'

A hyperbole is...

Imagery is...

• placing unlike ideas, people or objects next to another

• real life images

• a language that appeals to the senses.

Match the following

• the use of a word whose sound limits or suggests its meaning

• Mood

• a figure of speech that makes a comparison without the words like or as

• Metaphor

• placing unlike ideas, people, ideas, or objects next to one another to highlight their differences

• Onomatopoeia

• the overall emotion and atmosphere created by a work of literature

• Juxtaposition

• a contrast or discrepancy between expectations and reality (verbal, situational, dramatic)

• Irony

a kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human

• Irony

• Imagery

• Mood

• Personification