TL and TOW Literary Elements Notes

"Torn Lace" and "The Other Wife" Literary Elements Notes

by Christia Ouellette

Open Ended

What and when was the epiphany in "The Third Bank of the River"?

Multiple Choice

An event in which the essential nature of something—a person, a situation, an object—is suddenly perceived; it is intuitive grasp of reality in a quick flash of recognition in which something usually simple and commonplace is seen in a new light

• foil

• epiphany

• diction

• point of view

Multiple Choice

Refers to the feelings and attitudes associated with a word

• connotation

• denotation

• epiphany

• details

Open Ended

Write a negative and positive connotation for the sentence below:

She needed to get rid of the ________ pencil because it _________.

Multiple Choice

"The city was a jungle" is an example of what?

• alliteration
• simile
• metaphor
• onomatopoeia

Multiple Choice

"As straight as an arrow" is an example of what?

• simile
• alliteration
• metaphor
• onomatopoeia

Multiple Choice

"Achooo" is an example of what?

• metaphor
• onomatopoeia
• alliteration
• simile

Multiple Choice

"My manatee is making me mighty mad" is an example of what?

• simile
• onomatopoeia
• metaphor
• alliteration

Multiple Choice

The clock on the wall laughed at me as I tried to finish my test before class ended.

• personification
• metaphor
• simile
• hyperbole

Multiple Choice

The drive to Disney World will last forever if I have to be stuck in the backseat with my pesky little sister. 

• personification
• hyperbole
• simile
• metaphor

Multiple Choice

Perhaps because bats are nocturnal in habit, a wealth of thoroughly unreliable legend has grown up about them, and men have made of the harmless, even beneficial little beasts a means of expressing their unreasonable fears.  Bats were the standard paraphernalia for witches, the females half of humanity stood in terror that bats would become entangled in their hair.  Phrases crept into the language expressing man’s revulsion or ignorance—“Bat’s in the Belfry,” “Batty,” “Blind as a Bat.”

• creepy
• scary
• informational
• exciting

Multiple Choice

Ling was chewing the gum. When her teacher told her to spit it out and throw it in the trash, she talked back.
What tone did Ling use with her teacher?

• Apologetic
• Sarcastic
• Disrespectful
• uncertain

Multiple Choice

'The sun was bright and the sky was clear. Joan jogged down the path with Rex at her side and smiled about last night's victory.' What's the tone?

• cheerful
• depressing
• determined
• suspenseful

Multiple Choice

Placing two contradictory phrases or ideas that, through deeper analysis, make logical sense. 

• onomatopoeia
• oxymoron 
• paradox
• allusion 

Multiple Choice

"Water is cheaper than diamonds, yet humans need water, not diamonds, to survive."

• hyperbole
• paradox
• allusion 
• simile

Multiple Choice

What does the following paradox most likely mean?
"I close my eyes so that I can see."

• The person is blind and only has vision when closing his or her eyes.
• The person's imagination or internal vision is stronger when blocking out visual distractions. 
• It makes absolutely no sense. 
• The person needs to nap so that he or she can think better, 

Multiple Choice

deafening silence

• oxymoron 
• paradox
• onomatopoeia
• alliteration 

Multiple Choice

Situational Irony

• When the speaker says one thing but means another

• When the audience knows something the character does not

• When the opposite of what is expected is happen in a situation.

Multiple Choice

Verbal Irony

• When the audience knows something the character does not.

• When the speaker says one thing but means another.

• When the opposite of what is expected to happen, happens in a situation.

Multiple Choice

Dramatic irony

• When the opposite of what is expected to happen, happens.

• When the audience knows something the character does not.

• When the speaker says one thing but means the opposite.

Multiple Choice

A man who needed medical assistance is run over by an ambulance.

• Verbal

• Dramatic

• Situational

Multiple Choice

In a scary movie, the character walks into a house and the audience knows the killer in the house.

• Verbal

• Dramatic

• Situational

Multiple Choice

I'd like to visit that museum again as much as I'd like to gnaw off my own foot.

• Verbal

• Dramatic

• Situational