Its Kind Of A Funny Story Literary Devices – Flashcards
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"The opposite of the Tentacles are the Anchors. The Anchors are the things that occupy my mind and make me feel good temporarily. Riding my bike is an Anchor..."
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Symbolism
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"What were you trying to do, soldier? I was trying to eat sir! And what happened?..."
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Soliloquy
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"Resin streaks outline his light switch, and his bedsheet is pockmarked with black circles."
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Imagery
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"School is too all over the place. It spirals out into a million different things."
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Hyperbole
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"...she startes gyrating and put whaat she claimed as a Devil curse on him saying,'Diablo Tantunka' and pointing her fingers in mock horns: 'Ffffffffft! Fttttttt!' "
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Onomatopoeia
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"You'd jump off the Brooklyn Bridge" " I nodded, 'I'm familiar with it'"
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Foreshadowing
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"The smoke in me felt like a blob of clay"
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Simile
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"When I was four, this is how things were:" Our family lived in a crappy apartment in Manhattan...(goes on to talk about how Craig was unable to draw map of Manhattan at the age of 4)
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Flashback
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"My sweat drenches my pillow."
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Personification
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"I get the Not-Sleeping... front of your skull."
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Simile
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"My mind starts Cycling."
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Metaphor
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"-they appear as if on a gravestone"
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Euphemism
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"-they appear as if on a gravestone"
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Foreshadowing
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" I'll speed up Flatbush Avenue- the artery of fat Brooklyn..."
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Personification
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"No, according to the bible, suicide is a sin and I go straight to hell, what a gyp."
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Allusion
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"What they're yelling for is water- "waaa-taaa, waaa-taa"....."
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Onomatopoeia
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"she has on a little beige combat outfit with black boots; she looks like a Soviet soldier recruit"
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Imagery
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"Uhhhh...he says squinting his eyes"
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Onomatopoeia
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I go to the phone to call Dad, who's already bringing Blade II tomorrow night. I want him to bring something else too.
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Foreshadowing
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"That's right! Want to take a shot, soldier? I don't think so. Sir. C'mon, what's the matter with you? You got a lot going for you; you don't want to keep it going?..."
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Soliloquy
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"I've tried to take cold showers and they're wonderful when they're over, but during the process they feel like some kind of animal torture.
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Simile
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"I know a lot of famous people didn't do well at school, like James Brown; he dropped out of school in fifth grade to be an entertainer...I respect that"
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Allusion
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"Well. You want to know who she was? No I lost interest. You did?"
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Sarcasm
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"That's right Craig. This can be your Anchor"
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Symbolism
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"Are you going to try and make out with me?" "If you must know?Yes."
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Foreshadowing
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"And then I put an "X" right next to it, on a corner where an apartment probably costs $20 million, and write Bobby's Pad."
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Symbolism
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" I jolt up and I have a momentary seizure..."
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Hyperbole
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"Live. Live. Live. Live. Live."
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Repetition
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"it's only happened once since Sunday"
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Flashback
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"Rolling Pin Robert"
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Alliteration
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"And she looks at me without any of the humor or attitude she usually puts on, just with big wide eyes and empty questions."
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Cacophony
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"It's not a good idea, Craig."
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Euphemism