Literary Devices

What is a foil?

• a character who contrasts with one of his major characters.

• person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something.

• aluminium prepared in thin metal leaves. The foil is pliable, and can be readily bent or wrapped around objects.

• a piece of a very thin metal sheet or paper used to wrap a piece of food

Who wrote "The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet"?

• Edgar Allan Poe

• William Shakespeare

• Wayne Ho

• Walt Whitman

Since Shakespearean theaters did not have stage sets with false trees and painted walls, the playwright had to create a sense of where the characters were by using....

• cheap props

• real objects

• descriptive dialgues

• greeen screen

Comic relief...

• is used to break tension built up by the mood.

• is used to build tension.

• is used to build up suspense in a tense mood.

• is used to release negative energy in the air.

Which of the following means "making fun of something by using the multiple meanings of a word"?

• word game

• pun

• irony

• hangman

Which of the following applies to the following definition: a character who is alone—or thinks he or she is alone—speaks his or her innermost thoughts and feelings.

• internal conflict

• hate speech

• soliloquy

• liloandstitch

expressions containing an apparent contradiction are known as...

• paradigm

• parallelism

• oxytocin

• oxymoron

___________ takes place when the audience knows what one or more of the people on stage does not know.

• suspense

• dramatic irony

• satire

• dark humor

At several points in the play characters refer, often unknowingly, to what will happen in the future.

• mood

• foreshadowing

• suspense

• conflict

The emotional response that the writer wishes to evoke in the reader through a story.

• meme

• message

• mood

• motif