Literary and Rhetorical Devices Part 2

A comparison WITHOUT the words "like" or "as"

• Simile

• Metaphor

How the writer wants you to feel as you read a text.

• Tone

• Mood

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• Paradox

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

A contradiction.

• Paradox

• Parllaelism

• Tone

• Mood

A funny imitation of another work.

• Simile

• Parody

• Onomatopoeia

Personification:

Giving inanimate object human characteristics.

• True

• False

Plot is the ending of the story.

• True

• False

This is the person in the story that we are usually rooting for.

• Antagonist

• Protagonist

A rhetorical question is one that is not meant to be answered. For example, "Do I look like I was born yesterday?"

• True

• False

Works of satire are often about politics.

• True

• False