literary devices
What is a simile?
Comparison using like or as
What is foreshadowing?
Hints about what will happen later
What elements are included in the exposition?
Setting and characters
What is mood?
The feeling the reader gets from a text
Describe first person point of view
Using “I” statements, the narrator’s thoughts
What is a metaphor?
Comparison without the use of like or as
What is imagery?
What is rising action?
Events leading up to the climax
What is tone?
The author’s attitude regarding the text
Describe third person perspective
Like a security camera, cannot read minds of the characters
What is onomatopoeia?
A word that sounds like the sound it is describing
What is irony?
When the audience knows more than the characters
What is falling action?
Events after the climax and before the resolution
What is personification?
An object that is given human-like qualities
Man vs man, man vs nature, man vs self, man vs society
Examples of conflict
What is hyperbole?
An over exaggeration
What is an archetype?
A familiar universal symbol
What is an inciting incident?
The action that establishes the story
Two people speaking back and forth
Dialogue
Name the three reasons typically listed for author’s purpose
Persuade, inform, entertain
What is symbolism?
The use of an object or idea to represent something bigger
What is an idiom?
A saying that does not mean the literal interpretation of the word
What is the climax?
Highest point of the story, the point of no return
What is an oxymoron?
two contradictory words, one after another, that make sense
Poetry paragraph
Stanza