Literary Devices - Page 4
Questions
- Could Sydney Carton of "A Tale of Two Cities" be described as a dynamic character or a bildungsroman?
- Why is hyperbaton used?
- In Grendel, what poetic device is used in the phrase "deeds of dead kings"?
- Why is the purpose of internal rhyming in poetry? Is there any difference between internal and external rhyming, other than its placement in a poem?
- What are some examples of antonomasia?
- What is an example of a pun in literature?
- Can you help me find an aphorism in "Hamlet"?
- What is fragmentation in poetry?
- What is one way Hamlet foreshadows the content of the play?
- What is malapropism? Is there a movie that has some sort of malapropism in it?
- How is paradox used in "Macbeth"?
- Does anyone know any egg puns?
- What is a simile in poem?
- What are sentences called where all the words start with the same letter?
- Are other character's thoughts about a character a form of indirect characterization? What about the character's own thoughts?
- What is the author's diction in To Kill A Mockingbird? I need to explain Harper Lee's diction in To Kill A Mockingbird, as well as provide an example of it. AND, I need a picture. How can you visualize diction?
- What are some examples of expository devices and rhetorical devices?
- What view is an autobiography written in?
- What is a personification for the sea, or the waves that means it is quite loud?
- Is “ekphrastic” poetry composed from the Greek words ek (out) and phrazein (tell, declare, pronounce), ekphrasis, originally meant "telling in full"?