Names: ______________________________________________________________________________________
Period: _____
“The Lowest Animal” by Mark Twain
A) Read “The Lowest Animal”
B) From the following list of devices, select SEVEN to fill out the chart below.
1) Juxtaposition: The arrangement of two or more ideas, characters, actions, settings, phrases or words side-by-side
or in similar narrative moments for the purpose of comparison, contrast, or character development.
2) Verbal Irony: occurs when a speaker says one thing but really means something else
3) Hyperbole: extreme exaggeration or overstatement
4) Reference to historical or current event
5) Fictional anecdote: an untrue, brief story
6) Parallelism: repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
7) Listing/Cataloguing
8) Rhetorical question: a question asked for effect and does not actually require an answer
9) Short or lengthy sentences
10) Pauses (often created by dashes)
Device
Example from the text (cite)
Effect on purpose