a) Identified literary device found
b) Definition
c) Tell us why they are what they are
1. a) Situational Irony
b) When the unexpected happens to the unexpected person.
c) The life of someone (the man of in theyellow suit) had to be sacrificed to save the deaths of people. The man in the yellow was the one who wanted everyone to be able to live forever, yet he was the one who ended up dying because he wanted immortality.
2. a) Euphemism
b) The substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one, thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt.
c) “Ding-dang it” This was replacing a harsh word that could’ve been said by the constable
3. a) Simile
b) A comparison between two things using the words “like” or “as”.
c) “He looked more than ever like a marionette.” This phrase compared the man in the yellow to a marionette using the word like.
4. a) Simile
b) A comparison between two things using the words “like” or “as”.
c) “It was as if he were entranced and-yes, envious-like a starving man looking hrough a window at a banquet.” This is a simile because it compares the way Mae Tuck was staring to the way a starving man may star at a banquet using the word “like”.
5. a) Imagery
b) A figurative or descriptive language in a literary work to create a picture in your head while you read.
c) “Instead, he was gazing at the body on the ground, leaning forward slightly, his brows drawn down, his mouth a little open.” This gives you a picture of Tuck while he was so worried while the stranger laid on the ground.
6. a) Hyperbole
b) Literary exaggeration
c) “The slightest exertion brought on a flood of perspiration.” This is a hyperbole because in the text, they exaggerated how hot it was. It is not possible to sweat a flood.
7. a) Imagery
b) A figurative or descriptive language in a literary work to create a picture in your head while you read.
c) “The earth, where it was worn bald under the gate, was cracked, and hard as rock, a lifeless tan color;” This describes how Winnie’s lawn looked on a really hot day with great detail and this creates a mental image in your head.
8. a) Onomatopoeia
b) Words that are used to describe sounds
c) “Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock” This describes the sound the rocking chair that Winnie was sitting made when she rocked back and forth in it.
9. a) Personification
b) Giving something not human, human characteristics
c) “Outside the night seemed poised on tiptoe.” The night does not have tiptoes.
10. a) Onomatopoeia
b) Words that are used to describe sounds
c) “With a loud click.” The word click is being used to describe the sound
11. a) Simile
b) A comparison between two things using the words “like” or “as”.
c) “Leaving the cottage was like leaving something real and moving into a dream.” This is comparing leaving the cottage and going into a dream using the word like.
12. a) Personification
b) Giving something not human, human characteristics
c) “The big glass windows here were lidded eyes.” It’s saying that the windows have eyes that are closed and windows don’t have eyes.
13. a) Simile
b) A comparison between two things using the words “like” or “as”.
c) “Leaving the cottage was like leaving something real and moving into dream.” This sentence compares reality and dreams using the word ‘like’.
14. a) Onomatopoeia
b) Words that are used to describe sounds
c) “The barred door clanked.” The word clanked is describing a sound that the door made.
15. a) Hyperbole
b) Literary exaggeration
c) “When the thunder came, it tore the sky apart with its roar” This is a hyperbole because it exaggerates how load the thunder was, because it is obviously impossible for thunder to tear the sky apart.
