Literary Devices One
When words are used to suggest the opposite of the literal meaning.
What is Verbal Irony?
An author’s attitude toward their subject and audience.
What is Tone?
A literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.
what is Foreshadowing?
Occurs when the audience expects something to happen, but then something else happens instead.
What is Situational Irony?
An impossible exaggeration.
What is Hyperbole?
A form of figurative language in which something that is not human is given human characteristics.
What is Personification?
the perspective you use to tell your story.
Point of View
The author’s use of developing a character through speech, thoughts, emotions, actions, and looks.
What is Indirect Characterization?
The author’s use of developing a character by providing physical and personality traits of an individual in the story.
What is Direct Characterization?
When the author subtly lets the reader know the ending or an upcoming event
What is foreshadowing?
The writer or speaker refers either directly or indirectly to a person, event, or thing in history or to a work of art or literature.
What is Allusion?
Anything that appears on the surface to be one thing, yet represents something else and carries a hidden, deeper meaning.
What is Symbolism?
a phrase or word that contains two conflicting ideas, which is also play on words.
a distinctive (and repeated) feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition that represents something significant
What is a motif?
This kind of description is a vivid appeal to the senses
What is a imagery?
When the first letters of words are the same as in: She shook the shears at the sheep.
What is alliteration?
A character who contrasts with another character - usually the protagonist — to highlight particular qualities of the other character.
What is a Foil Character?
a literary style in which a character's thoughts, feelings, and reactions are depicted in a continuous flow uninterrupted by objective description or conventional dialogue.
What is Stream of Consciousness?
A figure of speech that makes a comparison using "like" or "as."
What is Simile?
A figure of speech that compares two things that are unrelated, but which share some common characteristics.
What is Metaphor?
Words that imitate sounds.
What is Onomatopoeia?
When you compare someone to a summer's day, you're using this literary device.
What is Analogy?
a story whose sole purpose is to represent an abstract concept or idea
What is an Allegory?
An overused, worn-out word or phrase.
What is Cliche?
A narrator that addresses the audience directly using the pronoun "you." and assumes that the audience is experiencing the events along with the narrator.
What is Second Person Narrator?