Lit Devices

Question 1

Allegory

Answer 1

Used to express large complex ideas in an approachable manner

Question 2

Allusion

Answer 2

References other literary novel or poems or stories

Question 3

Anachronism

Answer 3

Used to add confusion or fun. Messed with time(caveman using phone).

Question 4

Dramatic irony

Answer 4

Reader knows what will happen but charactors dont

Question 5

Imagery

Answer 5

The use of figurative language to evoke a sensory expierience in the reader (5senses)

Question 6

Irony

Answer 6

Hinges on opposites. Ex) one hates spiders and in the end they adopt a spider

Question 7

Simile

Answer 7

Like or as

Question 8

Motif

Answer 8

Repeated elements that have a symbolic meaning to the story

Question 9

Oxymoron

Answer 9

Combined words with opposite definitions: (ex) act natural

Question 10

Paradox

Answer 10

This sentence is a lie. This can enhance humor, illustrate themes and make readers think more

Question 11

Personification

Answer 11

Giving a non human things human like movements/activities/feelings in a non literal sense

Question 12

Satire

Answer 12

Funny way of describing something

Question 13

Situational irony

Answer 13

Gap between our expectations and reality (clear as mud)

Question 14

Symbolism

Answer 14

An object, concept, or word that does not have a limited single meaning

Question 15

Verisimilitude

Answer 15

Credible and convincing

Question 16

Vignette

Answer 16

Brings us deeper into the story by giving detail of little thibdg

Question 17

Cliffhanger

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Keeps the audience engaged in the story through suspense

Question 18

Onomatopoeia

Answer 18

Word that sounds like a noise it describes

Question 19

Dialogue

Answer 19

A convo between characters