Literary Techniques Review
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Transcript of Literary Techniques Review
NOTE: In order to play this game, it must be viewed in slide show (F5)
Interactive Quiz created by Nancy Roberts Garrity at St. John Fisher School
Directions: Read the example on each slide. Then click on the button that identifies the type of literary technique.
Mr. James Dillingham Young
The letters of “Dillingham” looked blurred, as though they were thinking seriously of contracting to a modest and unassuming D.
imagery
personification
inference
She stood by the window and looked out dully at a gray cat walking a gray fence in a gray backyard.
repetition
personification
inversion
In “The Gift of the Magi,” the narrator refers to Della’s hair as a “brown cascade.”
personification
synecdoche
metonymy
“Jim stopped inside the door, as immovable as a setter at the scent of quail.”
metaphor
simile
personification
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
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
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