Literary Terms Set 1
A literary device game.
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Topics of this game:
- Story or poem in which character, setting, and events stand for other people or events for abstract ideas or qualities: An example is Animal Farm by George Orwell; Faerie Queen by Edmund Spencer; Everyman by Petrus Dorlandus;
- Elaborate figure of speech that makes a surprising connection between 2 seemingly dissimilar things: Roses danced in the apples of her cheeks. "The Flea" My life is like a free online game; people seem to always be playing with it.
- Pause or Juncture separating words or phrases within lines of poetry: Ex - Can be commas. "You’re nobody! Are you? No, You are somebody, are you?"
- Narrative poem composed of quatrains: Ex "Paradise" by Coldplay; "Piano Man" by Billy Joel. Most are based on tragic romances.
- Repetition of the same vowel: "Goodnight, sleep tight, don’t let the bedbugs bite" "Winner, winner, chicken dinner"
- Character, action, or situation, that is a pattern of human life generally; a situation that occurs over and over in literature, such as a quest, an initiation, or an attempt to over come evil. Ex - Romeo (lover) , Mulan (Hero)
- Release of ones emotions regarding plot or characters: Ex - "Romeo and Juliet."
- Opponent to the protagonist (central character who drives the action) Ex - Queen from Snow White.
- Terse statement on a serious subject: Ex "Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old age regret."; "The simplest questions are the hardest to answer."
- Dynamic (life changes), static (no changes), stock (stereotype), round (complex traits), flat (has one or two traits).
- Seize the day; concerned with the shortness of life and the need to act in or enjoy the present:
- Direct: writers tell us directly what the characters is like; indirect; writer shows us what the character is like.
- Refers to words combining sharp or harsh sounds: EX - “With throats unslaked, with black lips baked, Agape they heard me call.”
- Rhetorical device of opposition in which one idea or word is established, and then the opposite idea or word is expressed as in "I love and hate": Man proposes, God disposes.; Patience is bitter, but it has a sweet fruit.
- Single rhythmic unit such as a prepositional phrase ("of human events") or noun phrase ("our sacred honor") EX: "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe.
- Author address an inanimate object, an idea, or a person who is either dead or absent: Ex - "O Romeo, Romeo, Wherefore art thou Romeo?"
- Repetition of the same first consonant sounds in poetry: "A big bully beats a baby boy."
- Comparison between two things to show how they are alike: EX - "blue is to color as circle is to shape"; "Finding a good man is like finding a needle in a haystack."
- Refers to someone or something well know: EX - "Is there an Einstein in your physics class?"
- A very brief story told to illustrate a point or serve as an example of something:
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