Literary Devices
A comparison of two things using like or as
What is a simile?
What are the two kinds of conflict?
What is Internal and External conflict?
When a text uses pronouns such as I, me, we
What is a First-Person Point of View?
The poetic equivalent of a paragraph.
What is a stanza?
The author uses this to emphasize their message.
What is repetition?
An object or an idea is used to represent a bigger concept.
What is symbolism?
When the reader understands a character by making inferences through their actions or speech.
What is internal characterization?
When a story is told from a bird's eye view with a narrator using pronouns such as he, she, and they.
What is third-person omniscient?
When a continued idea is spread over two or three lines.
What is enjambment?
An author uses this descriptive technique to connect with the reader/audience's memories.
What is Imagery?
A central message or insight into the life revealed by the literary work.
What is theme?
A section of a work that interrupts the chronological presentation of events to present an event from an earlier time.
What is a flashback?
What is second-person point of view?
The grammatical structure and sense of are complete at the end of the line.
The author uses intentional words to create a feeling or attitude toward his or her subject, characters or audience.
What is tone?
When an object is given human-like qualities.
What is personification?
The sequence of events following the format of exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
What is the plot?
The lens of the story being told. Depending on who's the story may be different.
What is perspective?
The repetition of sounds at the ends of words.
What is rhyme?
The association a word calls to mind. An author chooses this word to support a particular feeling the author is trying to get the reader to have.
What is connotation?
A contrast between what is stated and what is meant, or between what is expected to happen and what actually happens.
What is irony? (verbal or situational)
A type of nonfiction, autobiographical writing that tells about a person's own life told in a story format.
What is a memoir?
The speaker or character who tells a story.
What is a narrator?
Poetry that lacks a regular rhymical pattern, or meter.
What is free verse?
An author uses this to create a feeling of uncertainty about the outcome of events. Its use creates questions in the minds of its readers. It usually builds until the climax of the plot.
What is suspense?