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Literally Literary Terms

© 2006 by Mr. Mayers

Literally Literary

Terms, TooBAE Radley

IDK Vocabulary

Gramma fo’ yo’ Grandma

Gramma fo’ yo’ Great Grandma

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Personification

What literary device: 

“Chicago streets arose early to begin the New Year

Sales.”

foreshadow

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When the black box was set down on the stool, “the villagers kept their distance, leaving a space between themselves and the stool.” This is an example of what in

“The Lottery”?

Atticus

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Which character states, “You never really understand a

person until you…climb into his skin and walk around in

it”?

malevolent

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IDK what a state of nastiness, evil, or spite means.

noun

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What part of speech is the underlined word? This is the beginning of the end.

Anti-

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What prefix means “against”, or “oppose to”?

hyperbole

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What literary device: 

“Jurgis would not have dreamt it in a thousand

years.”

Allusion

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If Shirley Jackson made a literary reference to The Hunger Games in ”The Lottery”, she would have made a(n):

Moral Education

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Though Scout attends school at Maycomb, she does not seem to receive the same____ that she receives at home.

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assuage

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IDK what it means to make less severe or intense.

verb

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What part of speech is the underlined word? Drew could have won against the opposing team by himself.

Interjection.

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What part of speech is the underlined word? Whoa! That was a close one!

Imagery

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The setting in The Devil in the White City utilizes effective ___ to provide readers with an idea of what was seen and heard during Chicago in the 1890s.

Alliteration

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Gwendolyn Brooks’ “We Real Cool” frequently uses ___, like in “Jazz June” and “Sing Sin”

Loss of Innocence

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Jem being distraught over Tom Robinson’s conviction exemplifies the theme of ____.

impertinence

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IDK what a state of disrespect or rudeness means.

adjective

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What part of speech is the underlined word? This was the laziest written paper ever!

affected

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Affected or Effected?(Your opponent cannot steal) She ____ me in the most loving way possible.

Juxtaposition

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Jurgis’ idealism of America set against the violent reality of the slaughter housesis an example of what in The Jungle?

Southern Conservative Thinking/Old Traditions

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Old Man Warner in “The Lottery” best symbolizes what?

The Scottsboro Trial

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What historical trial inspired To Kill a Mockingbird?

obstreperous

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IDK, maybe you’re being unruly and disruptive in the library.

predicate

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What PART of the sentence is this? Janice tried to learn Mandarin.

-ure

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What suffix means a process, action, or result?

Person vs. self

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 Jurgis struggles with his involvement in the slaughterhouses and questions his own morality. This is an example of what central conflict?

Social injustice / inequality

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Though focusing on the seven juvenile delinquent pool players at the Golden Shovel, Gwendolyn Brooks is really addressing what bigger problem in her poem?

Atticus does not approve of guns

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Being called “One-Shot Finch” with a gun is an ironic name for Atticus because he believes that:

taciturn

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IDK why you are being so distant and cold towards your friends.

before

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What word is the preposition? There was nothing he could do before the winter storm arrived.

Pronoun = its

Antecedent = car

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In following sentence, identify the pronoun AND its antecedent. Both are required for points.  The car had its share of accidents.