Literary Devices (Application) Keystone Terms set#2

I am dying of shame.

• Allusion
• Hyperbole
• Motif
• Symbolism

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

I am trying to solve a million issues these days.

• Allusion
• Hyperbole
• Motif
• Symbolism

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

In The Great Gatsby: The Green Light, The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg, Gatsby's Mansion

• Allusion
• Hyperbole
• Motif
• Symbolism

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

In The Great Gatsby: parties, cars, cheating, wealth

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

• Motif

• Symbolism

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

 Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

 His face was a blue moon pocked with craters.

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

 "Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity." -George Carlin

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

"Your wife doesn't love you, she's never loved you. She loves me."
"You must be Crazy"

• Dialogue
• Figurative Langauge
• Iamgery
• Literary Device

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CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

"When I went out of the drawing room, first thing that came into view in the open corridor way was the picture of my brother. [I just got the point why my mother used to see that portrait hours after he was killed in the WWII, and she left only when she saw any one of us coming to her.] I just heard  steps and when I looked back, there was nothing that I could see. It was just a feeling of the past."

• Flashback
• Foreshadowing
• Irony
• Motif

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

“Life were better ended by their hate,Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love”
“Romeo and Juliet”

• Allusion
• Foreshadowing
• Imagery
• Irony

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5