Literary Techniques Review

1. Literary Techniques Review Interactive Quiz created by Nancy Roberts Garrity at St. John Fisher School NOTE: In order to play this game, it must be viewed in slide show (F5)

2. DIRECTIONS Directions: Read the example on each slide. Then click on the button that identifies the type of literary technique.

3. “Three times Della counted it.” inversion inference imagery

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6. Mr. James Dillingham Young The letters of “Dillingham” looked blurred, as though they were thinking seriously of contracting to a modest and unassuming D. inference imagery personification

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9. She stood by the window and looked out dully at a gray cat walking a gray fence in a graybackyard. inversion personification repetition

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12. In “The Gift of the Magi,” the narrator refers to Della’s hair as a “brown cascade.” synecdoche metonymy personification

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15. The next two hours tripped by on rosy wings. personification hyperbole paradox

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18. “Jim stopped inside the door, as immovable as a setter at the scent of quail.” simile metaphor personification

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21. Jim had an expression on his face that Della could not read: “It was not anger, nor surprise, nor disapproval, nor horror, nor any of the sentiments that she had been prepared for.” inversion irony repetition

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24. Out of his trance Jim seemed quickly to wake. inversion inference imagery

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27. White fingers and nimble tore the string and paper. personification synecdoche metonymy

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30. “Della leaped up like a little singed cat.” metaphor paradox simile

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33. In the conclusion, the narrator describes Della and Jim as “two foolish children” yet he appears to contradict himself by saying that they “were the wisest of all who give gifts.” paradox oxymoron understatement

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36. At the end of the story, the reader is surprised because the events are contrary to what one might expect. What is this called? verbal irony irony of the situation dramatic irony

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