Short Story Literary Devices

A literary device that uses people, words, or abstract ideas to represent something beyond the literal meaning.

• irony

• allusion

• symbol

• imagery

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Dr. Frankenstein creates - and then attempts to overpower - his scientific creation in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. This is an example of _____.

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CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Jade, an employee of the Coca Cola company, decides to purchase a can of Pepsi to drink for lunch. What is the literary device being used here?

• allusion

• dramatic irony

• flashback

• situational irony

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CCSS.L.8.5A

The Disney classic The Little Mermaid features a mermaid with a beautiful voice who lures Prince Eric with the sound of her song, a clear reference to the beautiful, but dangerous, sirens of mythological lore.

• allusion

• irony

• conflict

• oxymoron

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

A literary term used to describe the events that make up a story, or the main part of a story is called the ___.

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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

“Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed

Your leaves, nor ever bid the spring adieu.”

The above quote has strong word choice. What literary device is this?

• symbol

• diction

• allusion

• theme

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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

Outside, even through the shut window-pane, the world looked cold. Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper into spirals, and though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue, there seemed to be no color in anything, except the posters that were plastered everywhere.

• juxtaposition

• flashback

• imagery

• foreshadowing

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CCSS.RL.9-10.5

"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." Explain how this sentence is an example of a juxtaposition.

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman uses _____ to narrate Willy Loman’s memories of the past. At one moment, Willy talks with his dead brother while playing cards with Charley. He relives a past conversation in the present. This demonstrates a character that is physically living in the present, but mentally living in the memories and events of the past.

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CCSS.RL.9-10.5

In the short movie, "Hair Love", the film teaches viewers that confidence comes out of difficulties and struggles. Which of the following literary devices is being used here?

• tone

• mood

• foreshadowing

• theme

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2