Dialogue & Character Development
A character's line, "I don't need your help, I've done everything on my own since I was ten," reveals this about their character history or trait.
What is they are independent or self-reliant.
What type of figurative language is this: "The shadows danced across the bedroom wall" is an example of this figure of speech?"
What is personification?
What is the difference between mood and tone?
Mood is how a text makes the reader feel, while tone is the author's attitude toward the subject
A story narrated using pronouns like I, me, and my is written in this point of view.
What is first-person POV?
True or False: A theme can be stated as a single word, such as "Love" or "Courage."
What is False? (A theme must be a complete statement or lesson, not just a topic.)
This term refers to a conversation between two or more characters in a story.
What is dialogue.
Identify the device: "Her smile was as bright as the morning sun."
What is a simile
Words like creaky, howling, desolate, and shadowy in a setting description are used to establish a mood best described as this.
Eerie, spooky, or ominous
A narrator who knows the thoughts, feelings, and motivations of all characters is called this type of narrator.
What is third-person omniscient?
This term describes the central message, moral, or underlying lesson about human life conveyed through a literary work.
What is theme?
When a character's spoken words conflict with their internal thoughts or actual intentions, it creates this type of irony.
What is verbal irony.
Identify the device: "The quiet room was a silent tomb."
What is a metaphor?
Authors primarily build mood through word choice, also known by this formal literary term.
what is diction.
This structural element occurs when an outcome turns out to be dramatically different from what was reasonably expected, operating in situational, verbal, or dramatic forms.
What is irony?
What is the difference between a central idea and a theme?
What is the central idea that tells what happens in the story, while the theme tells the story's message or moral?
When the audience or reader knows a critical piece of information that the characters on stage or in the story do not know, it creates this type of irony.
What is dramatic irony?
"I’ve told you a million times to turn in your homework!" demonstrates this literary device used for emphasis or exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
What is the tone of the following passage?
"The heavy rain beat relentlessly against the glass, matching the hollow ache in my chest as I stared at the empty chair across the room."
Somber, mournful, melancholic (Words like "heavy," "relentlessly," and "hollow ache" express sorrow).
When a story is told through a first-person narrator whose credibility or perception is compromised by age, bias, or mental state, literary critics refer to them by this term.
What is an unreliable narrator?
What's the theme of this passage?
After months of bitter rivalry over the high school track team's captaincy, Leo and Marcus found themselves trapped in the school library during a sudden power outage. Working together in the dark to find an exit, they realized their shared dedication to the team was stronger than their individual ambitions. By the time the lights clicked back on, their animosity had dissolved into mutual respect.'
Shared hardships can transform rivals into allies
When a writer uses dialogue to drop subtle hints about past events that shaped a character or about future events in the plot, it functions as a literary device.
What is foreshadowing
When an author references a famous historical event, mythological figure, or literary work within a text, they are using this device.
What is an allusion?
What is the mood of the following passage?
Rain washed away the dust of a long week, tapping a steady beat on the roof as I curled up under a plush blanket with a hot cup of tea.
Cozy, peaceful, relaxed (The reader feels calm and cozy).
An author who cites expert testimonials, reliable statistics, and empirical research is primarily relying on this rhetorical appeal to build a logical and well-reasoned argument.
What is logos?
What is the difference between plot and theme?
Plot describes the sequence of events and theme is the message or moral of a story