Literary devices Flashcards
(22 cards)
What literary device are these: “Oh no, I totally meant to drop this expensive painting into a puddle,” “Good job making the science experiment to a swimming pool,”
Verbal irony.
What literary device are these: “The assignment that this student did was not meeting expectations,” “The athlete body refused to do the objective,”
euphemism:The student assignment sucked and the athlete was just lazy.
What literary device are these: “The dog silently yelled when his owner lightly stomped on his toy,” “The athlete hastily came to a stop,”
Oxymoron.
What literary device are these: “Bacon is my dogs kryptonite,” “The rapper verses was rhyming like he was shakespear,”
Allusion, it referenced to superman comics and shakespear.
What literary device are these: “The robber didnt know that there was a guard dog inside,” “ The hunter didn’t realize that those berries were expired,”
Dramatic irony, We knew that there was a guard dog and those berries were poisonous
What literary device are these: “The dog ran as fast as a cheetah,” “Ian started to hop around the ring like an kangaroo when he was boxing,”
Simile, the dog was compared to the cheetah and ian was compared to the kangaroo.
What literary device are these: “The basketball hoop mocked and stared at me viscously” “The golf ball screamed while soaring through the air.
Personification
What literary device are these: “I hate to hate” “The only rule that there is no rule.
Paradox
What literary device are these: “The awesome absolute appealing apple,” “The great glamourous giant grape looks massive,”
Alliteration
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What literary device are these: “As John stewart(Green lantern) hold up his ring to city that he just saved,” “As batman holds his batarang he see’s all that its been through,”
Symbolism because they are just simple objects to everyone else but to them it means so much more.
What literary device are these: “The dog realized that he ripped up his owners shoes after its parts were everywhere,” “The detective was bestowed on a thought of what if the store owner is the robber for an insurence scam,”
Epiphany
What literary device are these: “The dog continued to bite the students shoes but what he didnt know is that the owner started to beat up his plushie and biting it.
Situational irony that was weird.
What literary device are these: “I always sit inside Im just a couch potato,” “The dog had a heart of gold he saw that his owner was sad and brought him ripped flowers from the garden,”
Metaphor
What literary device are these: “Doctor strange told tony that there is only 1 good ending and its not all good,” “Jaime Reyes said he would work for a big company when im older something good will happen one day and he discovered the blue beetle,”
Foreshadow
What literary device are these: “The worker decided to cut corners on the job,” “The owner decided to cut the new employee some slack,”
Idiom
What literary device are these: “Jaime remembered when his dad first taught him about that their family has gone through way worse stuff,” “Peter remembered the time when he saw the last time he saw his parents in that car,”
Flash back
What literary device are these: “I’m addicted to brake fluid, but it’s OK because I can stop at any time,” “What do you call an alligator in a vest? An investigator,”
Pun
What literary device are these: “The kid said that he could jump forever in the trampoline park,” “The basketball players said that he was so tired his arm was going to fall off,”
Hyperbole
What literary device are these: “The boxer hit him POW,” “As Brian O’Conner(RIP Paul Walker) his tires went skrrrttttt,”
Onomatopoeia
What literary device are these: “He saw that it was clearer than night and day,” “The villian felt the joy of pain,”
Juxtaposition
What literary device are these: “The guy got a new set of wheels,” “He needed a pair of hired hands to do some work,”
Synecdoche.
