Literary Device Definition | Literary Device Identification | Literary Device Effect | TISAS/Dialogue Rules |
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What is a simile?
What is a comparison between two different objects using "like," or "as". The effect of the comparison enhances the reader's understanding of an idea.
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What is personification?
What is the following an example of: The wind said goodnight and the stars sang us to sleep.
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Lost love, sadness, alteration, etc.
What is the effect of the following metaphor: Your love, once a red, red rose, has lost its scent.
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Topic Sentence
What is does the T stand for in TISAS?
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What is imagery?
What is vivid description/figurative language that creates images in the reader's mind through the use of sensory language
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What is allusion?
What is the following an example of: Oh that girl? She's the female Lebron James.
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Danger, impending doom, the "s" beginnings sound like the sound of a snake slithering.
What is the effect of the following alliteration: The snake slid stealthily between the tall grass towards our sleeping bodies.
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T=tag
L=lead C=citation
What is the format for integrating quotes and what does each letter stand for?
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What is metaphor?
What is a direct comparison between two unlike things/ideas where one thing “becomes” the other without the use of the word like, as, than, or resembles.
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What is alliteration?
What is the following an example of: The dog drizzled his drool on the doll with a delightfully dopey look on his face.
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Good basketball player, maybe headed for a bit of a career scandal?
What is the effect of the following allusion: Oh that girl? She's the female Lebron James.
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Inside the quotation marks
What is the correct location for all punctuation that connects dialogue tags to dialogue?
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What is symbol?
What is one thing that stands for, or represents, something else in order to make us understand something about the text.
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What is metaphor?
What is the following an example of: Your love, once a red, red rose, has lost its scent.
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The water seems alive and wants to cause harm, intensifies the cold by making it seem alive and out of human control.
What is the effect of the following personification: The water leapt over the edge of the boat, attacking our exposed cheeks and surrounded our feet in icy cold.
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Create a new paragraph and indent for each new speaker.
What is the correct way to show a new speaker when writing dialogue?
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What is allusion?
When an author references another work of literature, historical event, historical figure, or a specific place without explanation or detail. The goal of this device is to provide additional meaning/context to their work through the comparison the referen
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What is imagery?
What is the following an example of: The white dots materialized, and drifted into our hair, each flake its own world of left turns and razor sharp edges.
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Dehumanization, loss of name/identity, uniformity, one sees self as less than human too.
What is the effect of the following symbol from Night: The three "veterans," with needles in their hands, engraved a number on our left arms. I became A-7713"(39).
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1) run-on
2) missing comma after cold 3) He said vs. he said
What are the three errors in the following:
"Hey, it's time to go I'm cold"He said. |