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 pathos?
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?
A work in which the characters and events are to be understood as representing other things. They symbolically expose a deeper, often spiritual, moral or political meaning.
What is an allegory?
Exaggeration of the likely consequences of an action, designed to that a misstep today could result in a disaster in the future.
What is slippery slope?
The message of a literary work; a central idea that is a significant statement the story is making about life.
What is theme?
An author’s attitude toward his or her subject and audience.
What is Tone?
The author’s use of developing a character through speech, thoughts, emotions, actions, and looks.
What is Indirect Characterization?
The author’s use of developing a character by providing physical and personality traits of an individual in the story.
What is Direct Characterization?
When the audience knows something the characters do not.
What is Dramatic Irony?
What are scare tactics?
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. Can be images, animals, shapes, or colors.
What is Symbolism?
What is a logos?
A person's preference or point of view.
What is bias?
"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?
Misrepresenting or twisting someone's argument so it is easier to attack and knock down.
What is a straw man?
The emotion or state of mind in a literary work. Evokes certain feelings in readers through words and description.
What is mood?
An expression or phrase interpreted figuratively; understood as to mean something quite different from what individual words of the phrase would imply.
What is an idiom?
A typical character, action, or situation that seems to represent universal human nature.
What is an archetype?
What is conflict?
A speech by one character delivering information or persuasive content.
What is a monologue?
Incorrect assumption that one event caused another. Correlation does not imply causation.
When is faulty causality?
A play on words. Ex: The tallest building in town is the library - it has thousands of stories!
What is a pun?
Used to structure what happens in a story.
What is plot?
When you put two opposing words together. I love jumbo shrimp.
What is an oxymoron?
An overused, worn-out word or phrase.
What is Cliche?
Word choice.
What is diction?
Playing on the readers' emotions to distract them from the facts.
What is sentimental appeal?