Literary Devices in Short Stories
Authored by George Connelly
English
8th - 12th Grade
CCSS covered
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
“What would I do? You mean seriously?”
Irony
Rhetorical Question
Setting
Plot
Tags
CCSS.RL.9-10.5
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • Ungraded
a literary device that is used step-by-step in literature to highlight and explain the details about a character in a story. It is in the initial stage in which the writer introduces the character with noticeable emergence.
Imagery
Setting
Irony
Characterization
Tags
CCSS.L.11-12.6
CCSS.L.8.6
CCSS.W.11-12.2D
CCSS.W.8.2D
CCSS.W.9-10.2D
3.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Jessie ran down the stairs and flung opened up her front door only to find nobody had shoveled and said, "Getting out of here will be a piece of cake."
Situational Irony
Characterization
Setting
Verbal Irony
Tags
CCSS.L.8.5A
4.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The room was warm and clean, the curtains drawn, the two table lamps alight-hers and the one by the empty chair opposite. On the sideboard behind her, two tall glasses, soda water, whiskey. Fresh ice cubes in the Thermos bucket.
Narration
Plot
Imagery
Setting
Tags
CCSS.RL.9-10.5
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Mr. Timmons is moving to a town outside of Milwaukee around the time we are expected to go back to school in person.
Characterization
Verbal Irony
Situational Irony
Super Sad
Tags
CCSS.L.8.5A
6.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The TWO key elements of Setting are
time and peace
plank and time
place and time
time and pace
Tags
CCSS.RL.9-10.5
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
This quote is an example of all the devices except:
Marta was nineteen. She looked out over the roof of the skyscraper, and seeing the city below shining in the dusk, she was overcome with dizziness. The skyscraper was silver, supreme and fortunate in that most beautiful and pure evening, as here and there the wind stirred a few fine filaments of cloud against an absolutely incredible blue background
Imagery
Setting
Characterization
Irony
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5
CCSS.L.5.5
CCSS.L.6.5
CCSS.L.7.5
CCSS.L.8.5
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