Lit Terms Practice

"Dense jungle came down to the very edge of the cliffs"

• Characterization
• Plot
• Setting
• Resolution

“For it was not the old man who vexed me, but his Evil Eye”

• Personification
• Conflict
• Characterization
• Dramatic Irony

“hark! louder! louder! louder! LOUDER!” 

• Alliteration
• Imagery
• Personification
• Characterization

“Aunt Nicey said that, after so much talk, if we produced anything less tremendous than the Resurrection, she was going to be disappointed”  

• Personification
• Simile
• Imagery
• Allusion

“I lay there crying, sheltering my fallen scarlet ibis from the heresy of rain” 

• Verbal Irony
• Symbol
• Imagery
• Personification

“The old charts call it Ship-Trap Island….”  

• Allusion
• Foreshadowing
• Symbol
• Alliteration

“I did not know then that pride is a wonderful, terrible thing, a seed that bears two vines, life and death” 

• Theme
• Simile
• Symbol
• Conflict

"Hello, Martin,' she said, and laughed, and pushed the STOP button."

• Conflict
• Verbal Irony
• Dramatic Irony
• Metaphor

 “I was the mouse to the General’s cat”

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Imagery
• Foreshadowing

“How calmly I can tell you the whole story”

• Foreshadowing
• Characterization
• Flashback
• Verbal Irony