Literary Devices
Texts
Things that are spoken
Types of characters
Linguistic Devices
100
a comparison of one thing to another in order to make description more vivid; it actually states that one thing is the other
What is a metaphor?
100
a written, typed, or printed communication, especially one sent in an envelope by mail or messenger. May be formal or informal.
What is a letter?
100
A short narrative that tells the particulars of an interesting and/or humorous event
What is an anecdote?
100
Persons—or animals or natural forces represented as persons in a work of literature. Characters may be static (stay the same) or dynamic (undergo a change in personality or attitude) and flat (merely sketched out often stereotypical or stock) or round (more fully developed).
What is a character?
100
the choice of words that a writer makes
What is diction?
200
a comparison of one thing to another in order to make description more vivid; uses the words 'like' or 'as' in this comparison
What is a simile
200
verse and rhythmic writing with imagery that creates emotional responses
What is poetry?
200
Conversation or speech among two or more characters.
What is dialogue?
200
A representation or imitation of a person’s physical or personality traits that are so exaggerated they become comic or absurd
What is a caricature?
200
the way in which sentences are structured
What is syntax?
300
the use of words to create a picture or 'image' in the mind of the reader
What is imagery?
300
a book or set of books giving information on many subjects or on many aspects of one subject and typically arranged alphabetically.
What is an encyclopedia?
300
The language of a particular district, class, or group of persons. The term dialect encompasses the sounds, spelling, grammar, and diction employed by a specific people as distinguished from other persons either geographically or socially. Dialect is a major technique of characterization that reveals the social or geographic status of a character.
What is dialect?
300
Point of view where an “I” tells the story. This “I” is usually a character in the story. Our perception of all the other characters and events in the story is limited to the way this one character sees them and tells us about them.
What is first person?
300
an implication or association attached to a word or phrase
What is connotation?
400
deliberate and extravagant exaggeration
What is a hyperbole?
400
humorous story with blatant exaggerations, swaggering heroes who do the impossible with nonchalance
What is a tall tale?
400
a meeting of people face to face, especially for consultation
What is an interview?
400
the main character or speaker in a poem, monologue, play, or story
What is protagonist?
400
a figure of speech which joins together words of opposite meanings
What is oxymoron?
500
a statement that appears contradictory, but when considered more closely is seen to contain a good deal of truth
What is paradox?
500
a short piece of writing on a particular subject.
What is an essay?
500
story, sometimes of a national or folk hero, that has a basis in fact but also includes imaginative material
What is a legend?
500
A person or thing that opposes the protagonist or hero/heroine of a story
What is an antagonist?
500
expressing an unpleasant or unsavory idea in a less blunt and more pleasant way
What is euphemism?
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