Fences - Literary Devices (Act 2)

The fence, as it's shown and referred to, is an example of:

• Symbolism

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

• Onomatopoeia

TROY: (Advancing toward him.) You just gonna walk over top of me in my own house?

The (INFORMATION IN THE BRACKETS) is known as

• Action

• Dialogue

• Stage notes

• Character names

TROY: (Advancing toward him.) You just gonna walk over top of me in my own house?

The information outside of the brackets (to the right) is known as

• Action

• Dialogue

• Stage notes

• Character names

The lights come up on the porch. It is late evening three days later. ROSE sits listening to the ball game waiting for TROY. The final out of the game is made and ROSE switches off the radio.

This is known as:

• Action

• Dialogue

• Stage notes

• Character names

ROSE: Cory, you sure you don't want nothing.

The incorrect grammatic structure featured here is known as:

• McDouble

• Double negative

• Doublemint

• Double entendre

What class of folks would normally speak in double negatives?

• Working class

• Middle class

• Upper class

• Middle Lower class

Troy's monologue when he's speaking to death is known as what: Man to man. You stay on the other side of that fence until you ready for me. Then you come up and knock on the front door. Anytime you want. I'll be ready for you.

• Soliloquy

• Monologue

• Dramatic irony

• Foreshadowing

A literary feature that references (we counted 9, total) that hint at a future plot event is known as:

• Soliloquy

• Monologue

• Dramatic irony

• Foreshadowing

This is an example of:

TROY Naw, it's just two hundred dollars. See that roof you got over your head at night? Let me tell you something about that roof. It's been over ten years since that roof was last tarred. See now . . . the snow come this winter and sit up there on that roof like it is .

• Soliloquy

• Monologue

• Dramatic irony

• Foreshadowing

Uncle Gabe's function in the play is:

• to cut tension

• to advance the plot

• comedy

• suspense