Literary Devices

A rhetorical question is a question that…

• No one will answer

• Cannot be answered

• The reader/audience does not answer

• All of the above

How many times do I have to ask to keep your classroom clean? This is a rhetoric question.

• True

• False

What time are you coming over again? This is a rhetoric question.

• True

• False

How does assonance differ from alliteration?

• They are the same.

• Assonance is repetition of both vowel and consonant sounds.

• Assonance is vowel repetition, whereas alliteration is consonant

  repetition.

• Alliteration is vowel repetition, whereas assonance is consonant repetition

What is an example of assonance in the passage below?

See the splashing of the kingfisher flashing to the water And a river of green is sliding unseen beneath the trees Laughing as it passes through the endless summer.

• Kingfisher flashing

• River of green

• Unseen beneath the trees

1. In real life, an ambulance comes to a woman's house to take her to the hospital, hopefully, to save her life. On the way to the hospital, the ambulance is hit by a semi-truck, and everyone onboard the ambulance is killed.

• Situational irony

• Dramatic irony

• Verbal Irony

A movie you are watching shows a woman jogging in the woods. The next scene shows a mountain lion lying in wait down the path where the woman is jogging.

• Situational irony

• Dramatic irony

• Verbal Irony

A patient is at the dentist and just as the dentist is about to give him a shot in the mouth to numb him, the patient says, "Wow, this is going to be fun!"

• Situational irony

• Verbal Irony

• Dramatic Irony

If you call someone who has failed a math test

"Einstein" you are using a form of what type of irony?

• Situational irony

• Dramatic irony

• Verbal irony

"He waited his whole darn life to take that flight, and as the plane crashed down he said, "Now isn't this nice?" - from the song "Ironic" by Alannis Morisette

• Verbal irony

• Verbal and situational irony

• Verbal and dramatic irony

• Situational and dramatic irony