Literary Devices One
The dictionary definition for something.
What is the denotation
Something that appears on the surface to be one thing, yet represents something else and carries a hidden, deeper meaning.
What is a symbol or symbolism?
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?
What a piece of literature or informational writing is mostly about? Often plot based or the "what happened" part or "what was it about" part.
What is the central idea?
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?
The hero, the jester, the wise sage, the innocent. Examples of this.
What is an archetype?
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?
A rhetorical device that appeals to the audiences sense of ethics or credibility. Example- a doctor selling a vitamin supplement.
What is ethos?
When the ad says the phone has 512 GB and a 7 MP front camera, it's using this rhetorical appeal.
What is a logos?
A puppy shivering in cold weather is an example of this rhetorical device.
What is a pathos?
"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?
The message you take away from a medium (poem, story, painting, film, other). Sometimes directly stated, sometimes indirectly showcased. Can be personal- more than one of these in most cases)
What is a theme?
The overall feeling or atmosphere that an author wants to create in the reader.
A figure of speech that makes a comparison using "like" or "as."
What is Simile?
A figure of speech that directly compares two things that are unrelated.
What is Metaphor?
Words that imitate sounds. Slash drip crash.
What is Onomatopoeia?
An author’s attitude toward his or her subject and audience.
What is tone?
Something that is exactly what it is, without hidden meaning. Ex. She is a doctor.
What is literal?
A way of using words that isn't literal but instead uses creative expression to create meaning.
What is figurative?
Mild or indirect expression substituted for one too harsh or blunt
Euphemism