ACTIVITY 1

Fill in the blanks: The object of this exercise is to match the word with the definition provided.

1. ________________ is a literary device that allows writers to show their audience specific events that happened before the current action of the story.

2. ________________ is a category system that literature falls into based on specific conventions that develop to characterize the differences.

3. _________________ can be verbal, situational, or dramatic and has the result of the meaning, situation or action being one thing but meaning something different.

4. _________________ is a type of literary work that satirizes another work, its author, or the ideas presented.

5. _________________ is a type of literary device where an author ridicules specific people, groups or some aspect of society.

6. _________________ is where a story takes place.

7. _________________ is a type of poem that has a specific rhyme and meter.

8. _________________ is a minor story that runs inside the main story.

9. _________________ is a concrete or physical object that represents an abstract concept.

10. _________________ is how the writer feels about his subject that comes through based upon the types of words chosen.

11. _________________ is how the reader feels about the story.

12. _________________ is an abstraction that represents the central idea of the story.

13. _________________ tells the story either in the first, second or third person point of view.

14. _________________ is the most exciting part of a story where all of the main conflict comes together.

15. _________________ is an intentional reference to another literary work or piece of art that the reader should understand in order to make connections.

16. _________________ is when the author hints at actions that will come in the future.

17. _________________ is a word that describes words that represent sounds.

18. _________________ is a comparison of two different things to make them more alike.

19. _________________ is when authors give human traits to animals or some other lifeless object.

20. _________________ is repetition of sounds or words to form a pattern.

21. _________________ is a writer’s vivid description that help readers visualize.

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ACTIVITY 2

Directions: Match the example with one of the literary terms above. (Note that not all terms are used in this activity.)

1. ____________________ Time is money

2. ____________________ The house stared angrily at its new occupants

3. ____________________ Western, Science Fiction, Documentary

4. ____________________ A flag represents freedom

5. ____________________ Greed, Love, Sadness

6. ____________________ New York, New York, at the turn of the century

7. ____________________ Shakespearian and Petrarchan

8. ____________________ Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels

9. ____________________ “Gentlemen! You can’t fight in here. This is the war room.” (Dr. Strangelove directed by Stanley Kubrick)

10. ____________________ “She got out her curling irons and lighted the gas and went to work repairing the ravages made by generosity added to love. Which is always a tremendous task, dear friends--a mammoth task.” (“Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry)

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