Literary Devices One
When words are used to suggest the opposite of the literal meaning.
What is Verbal Irony?
An appeal to your emotions uses this rhetorical device.
What is ethos?
A literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.
what is Foreshadowing?
Occurs when the audience expects something to happen, but then something else happens instead.
What is Situational Irony?
An exaggeration.
What is Hyperbole?
A form of figurative language in which something that is not human is given human characteristics.
What is Personification?
An author’s attitude toward his or her subject and audience.
What is Tone?
A useful device that provides information about an earlier event; the writer shifts from the present to the past to illustrate an important point.
What is Flashback?
Pride or supreme confidence.
What is Hubris?
When the audience knows something the characters do not.
What is Dramatic Irony?
The writer or speaker refers either directly or indirectly to a person, event, or thing in history or to a work of art or literature.
What is Allusion?
Anything that appears on the surface to be one thing, yet represents something else and carries a hidden, deeper meaning.
What is Symbolism?
What is a logos?
A celebrity holding a product adds this rhetorical appeal to the ad.
What is a ethos?
"A cool breeze carried carnival music and the aroma of popcorn my way. Just over the rise the lights blinked in a million colors." This appeal to the senses and the mental picture are this literary device.
What is a imagery?
When the first letters of words are the same as in: She shook the shears at the sheep.
What is alliteration?
A moment of significant realization which happens to the main character, usually at the end of a story.
What is Epiphany?
The formal word for describing an author's choice of word
What is diction?
A figure of speech that makes a comparison using "like" or "as."
What is Simile?
A figure of speech that compares two things that are unrelated, but which share some common characteristics.
What is Metaphor?
Words that imitate sounds.
What is Onomatopoeia?
When you compare someone to a summer's day, you're using this literary device.
What is Analogy?
When a poem changes direction in tone or message, it is called this.
What is a shift?
An overused, worn-out word or phrase.
What is Cliche?
Two contrasting words/ideas put together.
E.g.
Cold Heat
Bitter Sweet
What is Oxymoron?