Literary Devices- The Fault in the stars by Satkar – Flashcards

Quote from text - "Why did the cast rotate?" Explanation - This is a rhetorical question because Hazel asked this question to Isaac and she asked this question without wanting the answer. The answer was obvious but, she asked this question to make a point and to have an effect in the story.

Quote from text - "The support group, of course, was depressing as hell." Explanation - This is a simile because Hazel is comparing the support group with hell. And she is using the word like in it. Also, when you compare two things using the word like or as then that is a simile.

Quote from text - "So here's how it went in God's heart: The six or seven or ten of us walked/wheeled in, grazed at a decrepit selection of cookies and lemonade, sat down in the Circle of Trust, and listened to Patrick recount for the thousandth time his depressingly miserable life story-how he had cancer in his balls and they thought he was going to die but he didn't die and now here he is, a full-grown adult in a church basement in the 137th nicest city in America, divorced, addicted to video games, mostly friendless, eking out a meager living by exploiting his cancertastic past, slowly working his way toward a master's degree that will not improve his career prospects, waiting, as we all do, for the sword of Damocles to give him the relief that he escaped lo those many years ago when cancer took both of his nuts but spared what only the most generous soul would call his life." Explanation - This is an imagery because you can imagine everything happening in your brain, you have a clear vision on what is happening. Also, the author gave you so much description and he wrote everything in detail that you know and you can already imagine everything, like what is happening in the story.

Quote from text - "And his eyes were the problem. He had some fantastically improbable eye cancer. One eye had been cut out when he was a kid, and now he wrote the kind of thick glasses that made his eyes (both the real one and the glass one) preternaturally huge, like his whole head was basically just this fake eye and this real eye staring at you. From what I could gather on the rare occasions when Isaac shared with the group, a recurrence ad placed his remaining eye in mortal peril. Isaac and I communicated almost exclusively through sighs. Each time someone discussed anticancer diets or snorting ground-up shark fin or whatever, he'd glance over at me and sigh ever so slightly. I'd shake my head microscopically and exhale in response." Explanation - This is an example of atmosphere because this literary work is creating an emotional feeling because when you are reading about Isaac you feel bad for him and then you start feeling sad.

Quote from text - "Me:I refuse to attend Support Group. Mom: one of symptoms of depression is disinterest in activities. Me: Please just let me watch America's Next Top Model. It's an activity. Mom: Television is a passivity. Me: Ugh, mom, please. Mom: Hazel, you're a teenager. You're not a little kid anymore. You need to make friends, get out of the house and live your life. Me:If you want me to be a teenager, don't send me to Support Group. Buy me a fake Id so I can go to clubs, drink vodka, and take pot. Mom: You don't take pot, for starters. Me: See, that's the kind of thing I'd know if you got me a fake ID. Mom: You're going to support Group. Me: UGGGGGGGGGGGGG Mom: Hazel, you deserve a life." Explanation - This is an example of a colloquial language because this is a conversational language. The mom and the daughter, Hazel are having a conversation, they are talking.

Quote from text - "A boy was staring at me. I was quite sure I'd never seen him before. Long and leanly muscular, he dwarfed the molded plastic elementary school chair he was sitting in. Mahogany hair, straight and short. He looked my age, maybe a year older, and he sat with his tailbone against the edge of the chair, his posture aggressively poor, one hand half inv a pocket of dark jeans. I looked away, suddenly conscious of my myriad insufficiencies. I was wearing old jeans, which had once been tight but now sagged in weird places, and a yellow T-shirt advertising a band I didn't even like anymore. Also my hair: I had this pageboy haircut and I haven't even bothered to, like brush it. Furthermore, I had ridiculously fat chipmunked cheeks, a side effect of treatment. I looked like a normally proportioned person with a balloon for a head. Look, let me just say it: He was hot. A non hot boy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a hot boy....well." Explanation - This is an example of foil because Hazel and Augustus are highlighting their differences. They are telling their similarities as well and also they are telling how they look like.

Quote from text - "I nodded. I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really, really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else. I liked his voice. I liked that he took existentially fraught free throws. I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointment in the Department of Having a Voice that Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin. And I liked that he had two names. I've always liked people with two names, because you get to make up your mind what you want to call them." Explanation - This is an example of repetition because Hazel is repeating the word like/liked many times. If you look in the sentences every time she is using the word like to explain what she likes about Augustus.

Quote from text - "Hazel, you deserve a life." Explanation - This is an example of understatement because she is saying less that what she means just for effect because Hazel is always at home and reading books and she doesn't have any friends either and her mom is trying to say go and get some friends.

Quote from text - "In the book Imperial Affliction the narrator is a girl named Anna who develops blood cancer. Anna's mother falls in love with a Dutch man, referred to as The Dutch Tulip Man." Explanation -This is foreshadowing because in Hazel's life she might fall in love with Augustus which will lead to the happiness of both.

Quote from text - "Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something. Hazel Grace, tell me I have not reached the end of this book. OH MY GOD DO THEY GET MARRIED OR NOT OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS. I guess Anna dies and so it just ends? CRUEL. Call me when you can. Hope all's okay. Explanation - This is an example of hyperbole because Augustus wrote a message and it was really exaggerated. Also, the text were not suppose to be taken literally and hyperbole does mean some statement which was really exaggerated.

Quote from text - "In chapter 6 the tone of the author was excited and happy at first because she is going to Amsterdam but then Hazel starts feeling pain in her shoulder and head. This changes in tone help a reader stay attentive to the story." Explanation - This is an example of tone because you can sense that the author was really excited and happy and when Hazel was feeling the pain then the author was also feeling sad and this is what a tone is, when you can sense what the author feels and when the author changes the writing style for some reason.

Quote from text - In chapter 4,5,6 the diction of the Author was moody and changing. Sometimes the diction explained that the characters were happy and excited and at others time not so much. Explanation - This is diction because the author kept changing his mood again and again and you can notice that in his writing styles. Sometimes he was really happy when Hazel and Augustus were going to Amsterdam and then he was feeling sad for Hazel, when her body started to hurt.

Quote from text - "Hazel's parents are talking about an earthquake that hit Papua New Guinea. They had met in the Peace Corps there, so anything that happened in Papua New Guinea brings them back to a time when they were young. While they talk they do not even acknowledge Hazel. Explanation -This is flashback because the character remembers something from the past which takes the story to a whole different level.

Quote from text - Hazel thinks of how speaking on the phone with Augustus is like being in an invisible "third space" that only they occupy. Explanation - This is an example of simile because over ere we are comparing two things with the words like and as. The two things that are getting compared are talking on the phone with Augustus to an invisible third space.

Quote from text - This book is narrated from Anna's point of view. It means it could have some opinions and one sided statements. Explanation - This is a point of view because the book is getting only read by one person's view and we do not know the other's person's view, they think that they are right and Anna thinks she is right, that's why if it a point of view because the book is written by two people's view.

Quote from text - "Kaitlyn said, "hmm" and Anna also replied with "Hmm." Explanation - This is onomatopoeia because the word's sound is very close to the sound they are meant to depict.

Quote from text -"My hair looked like a bird's nest." Explanation - This is a simile because it is comparing Hazel's hair with the bird nest and it used like or as in this quote.

Quote from text - "Each sleep ended to reveal a person who seemed a bit more like me." Explanation -This is an epiphany because she realized something suddenly out of nowhere expectedly.

Quote from text - "Dr. Maria showed up on Friday morning, sniffed around for me for a minute, and told me I was good to go." Explanation -This is a hyperbole because she actually didn't sniff Hazel but she checked if everything was going fine and it was good to go.

Quote from text - "The return of Augustus is being foreshadowed by the fact that his parents are leaving for Amsterdam and by the pain he shows throughout the beginning of their trip." Explanation - This is an example of foreshadowing because you can already guess what is going to happen next in the book and that is called foreshadowing.

Quote from text - "The larger circles is virgins. The smaller circles is seventeen-year-old guys with one leg." Explanation - This is a wit because it is using language that surprises or delights you.

Quote from text - "The BIPAP essentially took control of my breathing away from me, which was intensely annoying, but the great thing about it was that it made all this noise, rumbling with each inhalation and whirring as I exhaled." Explanation - This is an example of imagery because when it says that each inhalation and whirring as I exhaled you can imagine that in your mind and you can sense how that will look.

Quote from text - "Stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid over and over again." Explanation - This is an alliteration because the initial consonant "s" is being repeated over and over again.

Quote from text -I just started muttering stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid over and over again. Explanation - This is a repetition because there is a repetition of the same word "stupid" over and over again.

Quote from text - "Lidewij drove a clunky gray Fiat with an engine that sounded like an excited four year old girl." Explanation - Hazel is comparing a loud engine that sounded like a excited four year girl and these are two unlikely things.

Quote from text - "The engine screamed. Lidewij shifted and we shot up a canal bridge . "It is circumstance,"she said."Circumstance has made him so cruel.He is not a evil man.But this day, I did not think-when he said these terrible things, I could not believe it. I am very sorry.Very very very sorry." Explanation -Lidewij said she is very sorry a couple of times. I could comprehend that she really was sorry because Hazel and Augustus came all the way from Indiana to Amsterdam. And it was difficult for them to come to Amsterdam because both of them had cancer and they had to be very careful. Also, the word sorry is getting repeated again and again that's why it is a repetition.

Quote from text - "The engine screamed." Explanation -The engine can not scream it can be really loud or it sometimes is not really loud.

Quote from text - "Oh Prufrock'? It ends, "We have lingered in the chambers of the sea/By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown/Till human voices wake us, and we drown." Explanation -This is poetry without a rhyme scheme.

Quote from text - "We could hear everything through the door. "Are they here, Peter?" a woman asked. "There are—Lidewij, there are two adolescent apparitions outside the door.""Apparitions?" she asked with a pleasant Dutch lilt. Van Houten answered in a rush. "Phantasms specters ghouls visitants post-terrestrials apparitions, Lidewij. How can someone pursuing a postgraduate degree in American literature display such abominable English-language skills?" "Peter, those are not post-terrestrials. They are Augustus and Hazel, the young fans with whom you have been corresponding." "They are—what? They—I thought they were in America!" "Yes, but you invited them here, you will remember." "Do you know why I left America, Lidewij? So that I would never again have to encounter Americans." "But you are an American.""Incurably so, it seems. But as to these Americans, you must tell them to leave at once, that there has been a terrible mistake, that the blessed Van Houten was making a rhetorical offer to meet, not an actual one, that such offers must be read symbolically." Explanation -In these theses few lines Mr.Peter Van Houten and Lidewij are talking to each other in informal language and its conversational as well.

Quote from text - "We could hear everything through the door. "Are they here, Peter?" a woman asked. "There are—Lidewij, there are two adolescent apparitions outside the door.""Apparitions?" she asked with a pleasant Dutch lilt. Van Houten answered in a rush. "Phantasms specters ghouls visitants post-terrestrials apparitions, Lidewij. How can someone pursuing a postgraduate degree in American literature display such abominable English-language skills?" "Peter, those are not post-terrestrials. They are Augustus and Hazel, the young fans with whom you have been corresponding." "They are—what? They—I thought they were in America!" "Yes, but you invited them here, you will remember." "Do you know why I left America, Lidewij? So that I would never again have to encounter Americans." "But you are an American.""Incurably so, it seems. But as to these Americans, you must tell them to leave at once, that there has been a terrible mistake, that the blessed Van Houten was making a rhetorical offer to meet, not an actual one, that such offers must be read symbolically." Explanation -In this paragraph it seemed like Mr.Peter Van Houten didn't want to talk to Hazel and Augustus. I think this is foreshadowing because maybe if he lets them inside he won't answer their questions and Augustus' wish will be wasted.

Quote from text -"We followed him and Lidewij inside, past a huge oak dining room table with only two chairs, into a creepily sterile living room. It looked like a museum, except there was no art on the empty white walls." Explanation -Here Hazel is comparing a house with a museum using the word like which means it's not exactly like a museum.

Quote from text -" Aside from one couch and one lounge chair, both a mix of steel and black leather, the room seemed empty. Then I noticed two large black garbage bags, full and twist-tied, behind the couch." Explanation -Hazel gave a very good description of how Mr. Peter Van Houten's house looked like. I could just imagine this house as if I was there looking at it.

Quote from text - "I stood up to play a me all full of bluster and machismo, shouting, "Get up, you fat ugly old man!" "You're a coward!" Explanation - This is an example of sarcasm because these are intended to hurt the old man who was sitting in the cafe with Hazel and Augustus. These words are not said intentionally, these are said to hurt the person.

Quote from text - "Did you call him ugly?" Augustus asked" Explanation - This is a rhetorical question because this question was asked by Augustus to Hazel just for effect, he was not really expecting for an answer, he just wanted to ask, he already knew the answer was, it was for effect.

Quote from text - "I'm naht uggy. You're the uggy one, nosetube girl." Explanation - This is an example of understatement because the old man is saying less than one means just for effect. He would had said more but he didn't because he was just saying it for effect.

Quote from text - "I love love love you!" Explanation - This is an example of repetition because the word "love" is getting repeated again and again for effect.

Quote from text - "The negative image of things blown together and then blown apart," he said. Before us, hundreds of people passed, jogging and biking and Rollerblading. Amsterdam was a city designed for movement and activity, a city that would rather not travel by car, and so inevitably I felt excluded from it. But God, was it beautiful, the creek craving a path around the huge tree, a heron standing still at the water's edge, searching for a breakfast amid the millions of elm petals floating in the water." Explanation - This is an example of imagery because you can imagine everything happening in your brain, you have a clear vision on what is happening. Also, the author gave you so much description and he wrote everything in detail that you know and you can already imagine everything, like what is happening in the story.

Quote from text - "The world is not a wish-granting factory, and then he broke down, just for one moment, his sob roaring impotent like a clap of thunder unaccompanied by lightning." Explanation - This is an example of simile because two things are getting compared with the words like and as and the two things that are getting compared are there was a person who broke down just for one moment and his sob was roaring impotent and this was getting compared to a clap of thunder which is not accompanied by lightning.

Quote from text - "Her eyes were fireflies." Explanation - This is an example of metaphor because metaphor is comparing two things without using the word like and as. The two things that are getting compared are the girls eyes to fireflies.

Quote from text - "My dad: Emily, this risotto.... My mom: It's just delicious. Gus's mom: Oh, thanks. I'd be happy to give you the recipe. Gus, swallowing a bite: You know, the primary taste I'm getting is not-Oranjee. Me: Good observation, Gus. This food, while delicious, does not taste like Orangee. My mom: Hazel. Gus: It tastes like.. Me: Food. Gus: Yes, precisely. It takes like food, excellently prepared. But it does not taste, how do I put this delicately...? Me: It does not taste like God himself cooked heaven into a series of five dishes which were then served to you accompanied by several luminous balls of fermented, bubbly plasma while actual and literal flower petals floated down all around your canal-side dinner table. Gus: Nicely phrased. Gus's father: Our children are weird. My dad: Nicely phrased." Explanation - This is an example of a colloquial language because this is a conversational language. Hazel's mom, Hazel, Augustus, and his dad, Hazel's dad, and Augustus 's mom, they are talking.

Quote from text - In the fault in our stars the motif was revolving around finding the sequel of the book, imperial affliction. Hazel and Augustus went to Amsterdam to meet Van Houten so they can know the sequel of the story but that experience was unsuccessful and even when they come back Hazel's dad is also reading Imperial Affliction. Explanation - This is an example of motif because the reader can notice the motif behind the book, on the basis why did the writer write this book.

Quote from text - In the book Isaac's girlfriend Monica is revealing hybris because she acts arrogant and dumped Isaac because she thinks she is the better and the "untouchable." Explanation - In the book there is Hubris used in the literature and I know this because hubris is extreme pride and arrogance shown by a character that ultimately brings about his downfall.

Quote from text - "Hazel discusses about the meeting with Van Houten while they are in the cafe." Explanation -This is flashback since they are going back into a situation which had taken place in the story before.

Quote from text - "Hazel's mom says," I love love love you." Explanation -It is an hyperbole because there were 2 more loves than usual. Hazel's mom does love her but here I think she was just expressing it more than needed.

Quote from text - In the fault in the stars Augustus and Hazel are in the story and they fall in love which would probably resolve their conflict because their bond in the story may help them fight the conflict in the story. Explanation -It is a Deus ex Machina because there is an unexpected event saying a seemingly hopeless situation.

Quote from text -There is a chart that explains Maslow's Hierarchy of needs. It is presented in a diagram and is visually descriptive. Explanation - This is an example of imagery because you can imagine everything happening in your brain by the description given in the book. Also, there is a lot of description given about this diagram.

Quote from text - "Gus says he used to think it would be fun to live on a cloud and Hazel compares it to it being like one of those inflatable moonwalk machines." Explanation - This is a simile because it is a comparison of one thing with another thing using like. Also, the things that are getting compared are living on a cloud to a inflatable moonwalk machines.

Quote from text - "Sounds like a nice guy" Explanation -It is an inference because this was a judgment based on reasoning rather than on direct or explicit statement.

Quote from text - "Who are you who are you who are you". Explanation -This line is a repetition because it is repeated a group of words for effect.

Quote from text -"Oh, Gussy Gussy, our little Gussy Gussy." Our gussy?" Explanation -This line is alliteration because the consonance "g" is being repeated over and over again.

Quote from text -"We went, his mom pushing the wheelchair, sisters and brothers-in-law and dad and nephews and me trailing. It was a cloudy day, still and hot as summer settled in. He wore a long-sleeve navy t-shirt and fleece sweatpants. He was cold all the time for some reason." Explanation -This quote is an example of imagery because it explains or describes the scene and you can imagine it in your head.

Quote from text - "My mom muted the TV." Is everything okay?" Explanation -This line or quote is a literary device which is rhetorical question. This is a rhetorical question because there is not a one answer to this question and it is your opinion to how you want to answer it.

Quote from text - The book, though concerned with cancer and death at a young age, keeps a humorous tone throughout most of the story, though it has moments of realistic sorrow. Explanation - This is an example of tone because you can notice the fom of how the writer has written the book like an informal way, or formal or many more.

Quote from text - "The return of Gus's illness is foreshadowed by the loud fight he has with his parents." Explanation - This is an example of foreshadowing because you can predict the next thing which is going to happen in the story. Also, there is a hint given and that tells you what is going to happen in next and that's why it is foreshadowing.

Quote from text - The title of the book is allusion to the play "Julius Caesar by Shakespeare." Explanation - This is an allusion because there is given a brief reference to the person.

Quote from text - "Hazel and Augustus both personify elements of their illness. Hazel's oxygen tank and Augustus prosthetic leg." Explanation - This is an example of personification because a human trait is getting compared to something else.

Quote from text - "I pulled the oxygen tube from my nostril and raised it over my head, handing it to dad. I wanted it to be just me and him." Explanation - I could imagine Hazel lifting her tube and handing it over to her dad. I could sense that she wanted some more time with Augustas. That's why she wanted to be alone with him and just have both of them alone so they could say their goodbye's.

Quote from text - "The walk felt long,but I kept telling my lungs to shut up, that they were strong, that they could this." Explanation - Hazel told her lungs to shut up as they could hear her. But obviously they could not. She gave human like features to an organ that is personification.

Quote from text - "Peter Van Houten wore a white linen suit, tailored to account for his rotundity, a powder-blue dress shirt, and occupation of Panama,not a funeral." Explanation - I can imagine Peter Van Houten wearing white linen suit, tailored to account for his rotundity and a powder-blue dress shirt. I'm pretty sure he was drunk because he said what a jerk to this minister guy. I think he is a big jerk because he said it out loud so people think he is funny.

Quote from text - "I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really, really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else. I liked his voice. I liked that he took existentially fraught free throws." Explanation - When Hazel said she really really liked Augustas she said it with a lot of expression.

Quote from text - Suddenly Mom was standing between the TV and me, her hands folded behind her back."Hazel,"she said. Her voice was so serious I thought something might be wrong. "Yes" "Do you know what today is?" She laughed."Not just yet. It's July fourteenth,Hazel." "Is it your birthday?" "No..." "Is it Harry Houdini's birthday?" "No..." "IT'S BASTILLE DAY!" Explanation - Hazel and her mom were talking in an informative way. Also this is an example of Colloquial Language.

Quote from text - When Augustus saw Hazel and she looked like she was about to die and he wanted to tell her that he was going to die as well. Explanation - The atmosphere was very sad because Augustus was very emotional and Hazel,anything could just happen to her.

Quote from text - Lidewij realized she won't get any work done is she is mad at Peter Van Houston. SO she said send it for the sake of your daughter who is dead. Explanation - Lidewij realized that she should be a bit more patient and she should think about the situation before acting.

Quote from text - I saw thought that Hazel will die before Augustus and at the end both of them will die. Explanation -This is irony because I didn't even see this coming.