SHORT STORY Essential Terms used in Literary Quotations
Read each reading passage (or prompt), and choose the
best example.
"In the hard-packed dirt of the midway, after the glaring lights are out and the
people have gone to bed, you will find a veritable treasure of popcorn
fragments, frozen custard dribblings, candied apples abandoned by tired
children, sugar fluff crystals. salted almonds, popsicles, partially gnawed ice
cream and wooden sticks of lollipops." --
This section of this text from "Charlotte's Web" is an example of...
Personification
Imagery
Metaphor
Irony