Figurative Language, Foreshadowing, & Suspense

Mrs. Guadalupe

Unit 3

7th Grade

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Literary

Devices

​Figurative Language

​Figurative language — language not intended to be taken literally but layered with meaning through the use of imagery, metaphors, and other literary devices

Multiple Choice

A comparison of things using "like" or "as"

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Theme

• Simile

Multiple Choice

To give human qualities to animals and objects

• Juxtaposition

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Imagery

Multiple Choice

A comparison of things without using "like" or "as"

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Theme

• Simile

Multiple Choice

The thunderous waves crashed against the rocks.

This sentence is an example of...

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

Multiple Choice

The glare of the sun was like a laser beam in his eyes.

This sentence is an example of ...

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• imagery

Multiple Choice

The fog comes

on little cat feet.

It sits looking

over harbor and city

on silent haunches

and then moves on.

• Imagery

• Simile

• Personifcation

• Metaphor

Multiple Choice

The use of exaggeration to express a strong emotion or create a statement is a...

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Imagery

• Simile

Multiple Choice

Words spelled the way they sound

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Simile

Multiple Choice

"I told you a million times, do not exaggerate!"

This sentence is an example of

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Tone

Multiple Choice

Joe’s boots crunched through the hard packed snow and broke the forest’s silence.

The word "crunched" is an example of...

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Imagery

• Onomatopoeia

Multiple Choice

The branches clutched at the kite string.

This sentence is an example of...

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Metaphor

Foreshadowing

​Foreshadowing — a literary device used by an author to provide hints about future events and details that may occur later in the story 

​Foreshadowing & Suspense

• ​Foreshadowing also creates suspense.

• ​In literature, suspense is an uneasy feeling that a reader gets when they don't know what is going to happen next.

• ​Authors build suspense by providing clues of a future event.

• ​Foreshadowing and suspense can creates feelings of tension or anxiety in readers and/or viewers because they want to know what is going to happen next, how an event is going to unfold, or what will be the result of a previous event.

Multiple Choice

Define Foreshadow

• Something the author tells you in a story that happened in the past.

• A hint the author gives you of something that will happen in the future.

• The dark thing I see on the ground  when I'm walking outside in the sun.

• Men get it when they don't shave for a few days.

Multiple Choice

“Remember, Cinderella,” warned her fairy godmother, “you must leave the ball at midnight. If you stay later, everything will turn back as it was. Your coach will become a pumpkin again. Your gown will become rags. Promise me you will remember.” “Of course, I’ll remember,” said Cinderella, but as her coach carried her toward the ball, the warning was replaced in her mind with images of dancing and music.

• Climax

• Flashback

• Foreshadowing

• Conflict

Multiple Choice

Suspense is created through...

• Foreshadowing

• Flashback

Multiple Choice

A state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen is...

• Slice of Pizza

• Social Media

• Silence

• Suspense