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What is this literary device: When the narrator or action goes back into the past to describe a scene that is essential to the main plot.

Flashback

'Til I’m topplin’ from the top, I’m not going to stop I’m standin’ on my Monopoly board That means I’m on top of my game And it don’t stop ‘til my hip don’t hop anymore.'

Wordplay / pun

'Yep. That's the right way to act at work.'

Sarcasm

A very strong contrast of opposing ideas, arguments or views. EG: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"

Juxtaposition

What is this perspective called: 'I couldn't believe that they had lied to her.'

1st person

What is this perspective called: 'She woke up early that morning. It was the day they were finally going to visit her grandma.'

3rd person

What literary device is this: A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract.

Symbol

If you say 'I did ok on the test,' when you got 99% is an example of:

Understatement

A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage

Soliloquy

Instructions for actors and stage crew, usually set in italics

Stage Directions

A group of lines in a poem (like a 'paragraph' in prose)

Stanza

A statement that seems impossible because it contains two opposing ideas that are both true. eg: In this rich country, there is a lot of poverty.

Paradox

Comparing two things that are not really like each other, using 'like' or 'as'. EG: My love is like a red, red rose.

Simile

A comparison between two things which are quite different. Doesn't use 'as' or 'like'. EG: 'There's daggers in men's smiles.'

Metaphor

When an audience knows more than the character does. EG: Othello believes Desdemona is unfaithful to him, but the audience knows she is not.

Dramatic irony

She died of embarrassment

Hyperbole

I was so hungry I ate five burgers

Exaggeration

Sadly, last Thursday, old Grandpa Brown went to a 'better place.'

Euphemism

'They think they’re crAzy but thEy ain‘t crAzy lets fAce it...'

Assonance.

'What am I even doing here?' sighed Jack.

Rhetorical question

What perspective is this: Josh was worried about the test, but Mara wasn't. Angela hadn't even remembered it was happening. And Luke? Well, Luke was already planning how to fake an illness so he could avoid going to school the next day.

Omniscient narrator

'Wow. What a beautiful day.'

She put the key in her pocket. 'Who knows?' she said. 'Maybe this will be useful one day.'

Foreshadowing

In the first scene of "Othello," we are introduced to Roderigo and Iago, who expresses anger over Othello's failure to promote him. We learn that Desdemona's father is a senator with the power to punish Othello for his "stealing" Desdemona.

Exposition

'We shall fight in France. We shall fight on the seas and oceans. We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall never surrender.’

Anaphora

What literary device is demonstrated here: 'He is Romeo to her Juliet.'

Allusion.