Literary Devices
This literary device is when a direct comparison is made between two things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
This shot shows us a face or object in close detail
What is a close-up?
This term is used to describe poetry that rhymes
What is rhymed verse?
This term is used to describe the most exciting part of the story when characters finally deal with the big challenge they have been facing
What is the climax?
This memoir feature shows us what the characters in the memoir writer's story say
What is dialogue?
This literary device is when a direct comparison is made between two things
What is a metaphor?
This camera shot appears toward the start of the movie to tell us about the setting
What is an establishing shot?
This is a five-line poem from the country of Ireland that is silly in nature and that ultimately tells a joke
What is a limerick?
This term is used to describe the story's ending when everything gets resolved
What is the resolution?
This is the voice (perspective) in which most memoirs are written
What is first-person?
This literary device is when the starts of words in a series sound the same
What is alliteration?
This type of shot shows us the world from the perspective of one of the characters
What is a POV shot?
This type of poetry mimics the natural rhythm of speech and is essentially poetry without rules
What is free verse?
This term is used to describe the background information we need to know at the start of the story about the characters and setting
What is the exposition?
These two memoir features reveal what's going on inside the writer's mind and heart as they reflect on their past experiences
What are the writer's thoughts and feelings?
This literary device is when words are written like the sounds they represent
What is onomatopoeia?
Term used for all of the components within a frame of film, including the setting, characters, lighting, props, and everything else
What is the mise en scene?
This term is used to describe a grouped-off section of lines in a poem, like how paragraphs work in stories or essays
What is a stanza?
This term is used to describe the increasingly intensifying events throughout the story that lead up to the story's climactic moment
What is the rising action?
This memoir feature reveals the fact that the writer may not fully or accurately remember everything that happened in the past
What is unreliable narrator?
This literary device is another term for exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
Type of camera shot that moves from up to down on a fixed axis or down to up
What is a tilt?
This is the name of the famous poetry competition held for youths in the UK each year
What is Poetry by Heart?
This alliterative term is used to describe when the main conflict first presents itself to the main character, kickstarting the whole story
What is the inciting incident?
This memoir feature shows us what the writer has reflected upon and learned from their past experiences
What is hindsight wisdom?