Figurative Language
Plot Diagram
Rhetorical Devices
Literary Devices
Conflicts
100

The flowers danced in the wind. 

Personification

100

The beginning of the story where we gather information: characters, setting, tone. 

Exposition

100

Appeal to Emotion

Pathos

100

When the audience/reader knows more than the characters 

Dramatic Irony

100

The accused women of Salem 

Character vs. ______

Character vs. Society

200

He was a big fish in a small pond. 

Metaphor

200

The rising action is a series of what? 

Conflicts

200

Appeal to logic

Logos

200

Where she walks, the crowd parts like Moses and the Red Sea

Allusion

200

The conflict George faced when he was upset about killing Lennie

Character vs. Self

300

I would cut off my own hand before I reach for yours again. 

Hyperbole

300

The point of the highest interest in a story

Climax

300

Appeal to character/credability

Ethos

300

Using a physical object to represent something more abstract

Symbol

300
Lennie's central conflict in Of Mice and Men 

Character vs. Character

400

Parting is such sweet sorrow. 

Alliteration
400

Immediately after the climax

Falling action

400

Pathos

400

How the poppet was used in The Crucible

Foreshadowing

400

The central conflict of "Everyday Use"/ "Good Country People" 

Character vs. Character

500

It's raining cats and dogs. 

Idiom

500

When we know exactly how the story ends

Resolution

500

Ethos


500

How rabbits were used in Of Mice and Men

Symbol

500

Central Conflict in "Letters from the Birmingham Jail" by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 

character vs. society

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