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Literary Term Practice

Literary Term Practice. How well do you know your literary terms?. What Term Is It?.

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Literary Term Practice

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  1. Literary Term Practice How well do you know your literary terms?

  2. 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

  3. What Term Is It? • "It beats as it sweeps as it cleans."(Slogan for Hoover vacuum cleaners) • Assonance

  4. What Term Is It? • From Beauty and the Beast • Personification

  5. What Term Is It? • Brian was a wall, bouncing every tennis ball back over the net. http://www.rhlschool.com/eng3n26.htm • Metaphor (http://www.rhlschool.com/eng3n26.htm)

  6. 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

  7. What Term Is It? • Sometimes I think my computer hates me! • Personification

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. What Term Is It? • "The streets were a furnace, the sun an executioner.“ (Cynthia Ozick, "Rosa") • Metaphor

  11. What terms do you observe in the poem? • Rain • Rain races,Ripping like wind.Its restless rageRattles likeRocks ripping throughThe air. • By Jake

  12. What Term Is It? • Man vs. Nature • Conflict

  13. What Term Is It? Onomatopoeia

  14. 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

  15. What Term Is It? • It’s as clear as mud. • Oxymoron

  16. What Term Is It? • 'Listen to the fire crackle in the dark' . • Onomatopoeia

  17. What Term Is It? • You had to choose between what two difficult choices? ___  or ___ • Conflict

  18. 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

  19. What Term Is It? • Johnny loves jumbo shrimp. • Oxymoron

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