Literary Term Practice

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Literary Term Practice

• How well do you know your
• literary terms?

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What Term Is It?

• Don't delay dawns disarming display . Dusk
  demands daylight . Dewdrops dwell
  delicatelydrawing dazzling delight .Dewdrops
  dilute daisies domain. Distinguished debutantes
  . Diamonds defray delivereddaylights distilled
  daisy dance .  (Dewdrops Dancing Down Daisies By
  Paul McCann)
• Alliteration

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What Term Is It?

• "It beats as it sweeps as it cleans."
  (Slogan for Hoover vacuum cleaners)
• Assonance

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What Term Is It?

• From Beauty and the Beast
• Personification

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What Term Is It?

• Brian was a wall, bouncing every tennis ball back
  over the net.
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• Metaphor

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What Term Is It?

• And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the
  sideOf my darling, my darling, my life and my
  bride.
• Assonance

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What Term Is It?

• Sometimes I think my computer hates me!
• Personification

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What Term Is It?

• My mind is as brave as a warriorof the night.
  It's ready totake on anything that comes
  toit. It can take on any dream,and always
  followsLife.
• By Alex
• Simile

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What Term Is It?

• Hear the loud alarum bells--   Brazen
  bells!What a tale of terror, now, their
  turbulency tells! (The Bells by Edgar Allan
  Poe)
• Alliteration

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What Term Is It?

• "The streets were a furnace, the sun an
  executioner. (Cynthia Ozick, "Rosa")
• Metaphor

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What terms do you observe in the poem?

• Rain
• Rain races,Ripping like wind.Its restless
  rageRattles likeRocks ripping throughThe air.
• By Jake

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What Term Is It?

• Man vs. Nature
• Conflict

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What Term Is It?

• Onomatopoeia

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What Term Is It?

• The opening line of The Cask of Amontillado by
  Poe The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had
  borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon
  insult, I vowed revenge.
• Point of View

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What Term Is It?

• Its as clear as mud.
• Oxymoron

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What Term Is It?

• 'Listen to the fire crackle in the dark' .
• Onomatopoeia

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What Term Is It?

• You had to choose between what two difficult
  choices? ___  or ___
• Conflict

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What Term Is It?

• They're free to run anywhere they like whenever
  they like, so they do. The land falls away from
  their small house on the hill along a prickly
  path there's a dirt road, a pasture where the
  steer are kept, swamps, a gully, groves of fruit
  trees, and then the creek from whose far bank a
  wooded mountain surges--they climb it
• (From Flower
  Children by Maxine Swann)
• Point of View

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What Term Is It?

• Johnny loves jumbo shrimp.
• Oxymoron