Literary Terms & Devices (Definitions)
The main character of a story.
What is the protagonist?
What is a simile?
The type conflict when a character can't decide whether to tell the truth or a lie.
What is Character vs. Self?
The activity that leads Louie to change his troubled behavior as a child.
What is running?
This food was considered very valuable in the POW camps.
What is sugar?
The main events of a story, novel or play.
"I've told you a million times to clean your room."
What is hyperbole?
The type of conflict when Louie gets stranded in the ocean and is attacked by sharks.
What is Character vs. Nature?
The genre of the book, Unbroken.
What is nonfiction/biography?
The decree that all POW's would be killed if the Allies advanced and came to their rescue.
What is the Kill-All Order?
When an object is given human-like qualities.
What is personification?
"The snow softly settled on the silent street."
What is alliteration?
The type of conflict when two students are arguing about how the work should be split up on the project.
What is Character vs. Character?
The country in which Louie's parent immigrated from.
What is Italy?
This was an attempt to get Louie to spread Japanese propaganda.
What is the Japanese radio show?
Clues that hint towards what's to come later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
"The bomb raids growing closer to the POW camps represent hope for the prisoners."
What is symbolism?
The type of irony when a weather forecaster forgets their umbrella and gets caught in a storm.
What is situational irony?
Louie's best friend when he joins the military.
Who is Russell Phillips?
This climatic and memorable scene demonstrated Louie's resilience and determination to remain unbroken.
What is "The Beam"?
The universal subject or idea of a piece of writing.
What is theme?
"He met his Cinderella at the school dance that weekend."
What is allusion?
The type of irony when the viewer knows the killer is hiding in the closet, but the main character enters the room.
What is dramatic irony?
Louie's role on the flight crew in the Air Corps after joining the military.
What is a bombardier?
Of all the terrible events that happened in the camps, Louie believed that this particular thing was going to be the one that "shatters" him.
What is picking up feces and eating handfuls of pig feed to avoid starving to death?