Literary Devices

How do author's usually show mood? 

• Through word choice (descriptions)
• Through characters
• With the title 

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In Hercules, the audience knows that baby Hercules did not drink the last drop of potion. Hades does not know this and thinks that Hercules is mortal now. This is an example of what....

• Allusion
• Allegory
• Dramatic Irony
• Climax

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The central idea or universal truth that a story examines is  ________________________.

• Conflict
• Theme
• Point of view
• Resolution

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What literary device uses hints or clues to suggest what will happen next?

• Irony
• Suspense
• Flashback
• Foreshadowing

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What literary device uses an object or action that means something other than its literal meaning?

• Symbolism
• Foreshadowing
• Flashback
• Irony

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the audience knows something that the characters do not know

• situational irony

• dramatic irony

• drama

• verbal irony

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Feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage

• symbol
• tone
• mood
• motif

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In the movie Shrek, he has to go to a tower and rescue and princess from a dragon. This is playing on the idea of a handsome prince coming to the rescue. This idea is as example of...

• Allegory
• Archetype 
• Alliteration
• Allusion

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In the movie Toy Story, Buzz and Woody are opposites, and because of this we see their individual characteristics more clearly. This is an example of...

• Foil
• Dramatic Irony
• Mood
• Theme

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What is an allegory?

• the feeling of the story

• the beginning of a story

• a reference to another story within a story

• an extended metaphor used throughout a story

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