Literary Devices (semester 1) Flashcards
Give examples of direct allusion in LOTF
An example of a direct allusion in Lord of the Flies is when the boys list their favorite island stories such as Treasure Island, Swallows and Amazons, and Coral Island.
What is apostrophe?
Example:
“O death, where thy sting?
O grave, where is thy victory? “ 1Cor. 15:15.
“Science! True daughter of Old Time thou art!”
Edgar Allan Poe, To Science.
O great and mighty, Sun, please keep shining on us.
An apostrophe is a figure of speech used to address a thing,an abstraction or a person not present.
What is Indirect Characterization?
When an author gives a look into a character by giving different information with which one must infer details of their personality. This can be done through speech, thoughts, effect on other characters, actions and looks.
What is characterization?
Use of description, dialogue, dialect and action to create in the reader an emotional or intellectual reaction to a character or to make the character more vivid and realistic
Give examples of Indirect allusions in LOTF
Lord of the Flies had many indirect allusions to the Bible and to biblical symbolism: the island was described similar to the Garden of Eden; references and descriptions about the Beast; speaking of blasphemies by Jack; identifying a snake-thing; and many others.
What literacy device is used in this example from LOTF?
‘the sand, trembling beneath the heat haze’…,
…’yellow flame that poured upwards and shook a great beard of flame’…,
Personification
Sand cannot tremble. Flames cannot shake.
What device is this example?
Simon’s “conversation” with The Lord of the Flies. The pig’s head is not literally talking, rather, it is given a voice to emphasize that the evil is not a single entity somewhere on the island, but is actually a monster inside each and every one of the boys.
Golding gives the pig’s head a voice and personality to give it the physical manifestation of pure evil.
Personification
What device in this example?
Example from the text: “But you can feel as if you’re not hunting, but–being hunted, as if something’s behind you all the time in the jungle.”
Foreshadowing
Give an example of foreshadowing in LOTF
What device in this example?
“There was a mildness about his mouth and eyes that proclaimed no devil.”- Quote about Jack
Direct characterization
What device used in this example?
Simon is __________ to Jesus because of the similarities in their life events and personality. Both are kind and loving to the littluns, both are somewhat shunned by the “powerful”, and both are killed while trying to spread the truth.
Allusion
What device in these examples?
Conch-unity and order;
The Fire-Destruction;
Piggy’s Specs-Destruction of Order;
Pig Hunts-Savagery;
The Beastie/Lord of the Flies-Evil in Humanity
Symbolism
What is Direct Characterization?
When the author directly says traits of the character. The author can either say personality traits or describe the physical appearance of a character. It is only direct characterization if it is told specifically in narration
What is a pun?
A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings.
What is foreshadowing?
Foreshadowing is when an author gives hints about events that will come later in the story.
