Literary Devices
A comparison using “like” or “as.”
What is a simile?
The main character in a story.
What is the protagonist?
A word that describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
A word that means the opposite of another word.
What is an antonym?
Reading between the lines to figure something out.
What is inference?
Giving human traits to nonhuman things.
What is personification?
The time and place of a story.
What is the setting?
A word that replaces a noun.
What is a pronoun?
A clue in a sentence that helps define a word.
What is a context clue?
The reason an author writes a text.
What is author’s purpose?
Repeating beginning consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
The problem in a story.
What is the conflict?
A group of words with a subject and verb.
What is a clause?
Words that sound alike but have different meanings/spellings.
What are homophones?
Information directly stated in the text.
What is explicit information?
A hint about future events
What is foreshadowing?
The most exciting part of the story.
What is the climax?
A sentence with one independent clause and one dependent clause.
What is a complex sentence?
The dictionary meaning of a word.
What is denotation?
The attitude a writer has toward a subject.
What is tone?
A contrast between expectation and reality.
What is irony?
The lesson or message of a story.
What is the theme?
A verb tense showing an action completed before another action.
What is past perfect tense?
The feelings associated with a word.
What is connotation?
Evidence from the text used to support an answer.
What is textual evidence?