Literary Devices
This literary device occurs when an author hints at events that will happen later in the text
What is foreshadowing?
This type of narration is often done by the main character of the story.
What is first person POV?
A narrator that shows obvious favor or dislike for something or someone is showing this.
What is bias?
These are the two main ways an author will characterize in a story.
What are direct and indirect characterization?
Mrs. Mills hears nothing but running mouths all day at school, like loud cars disturbing a peaceful morning.
The tone of the statement above can be seen as this.
What is upset, annoyed, mad, irritated, or angry.
This is a reference to a well-known person, event, text, or idea.
What is an allusion?
This is a rarely used POV that involves the pronoun "you" used in general terms to refer to people in general.
What is second person POV?
The description of how a narrator feels about a topic in general is known as their ____________.
What is perspective?
In direct characterization, this person tells the reader exactly what a character is like.
Who is the narrator?
This tone is conveyed when an author chooses to use formal or respectful language.
What is serious or professional?
This literary device involves recurring symbols, images, or ideas throughout a work. It is what the author wants you to learn from the story.
What is a theme?
If I am sitting on a bench observing something happening to my friend and someone I don't know, and I only know the feelings of my friend, I can only tell the story from this point of view?
What is third person limited?
If a narrator hides information from the reader, keeping them on edge about the truth, this creates this effect.
What is suspense?
What is the antagonist?
One of these is the author's attitude towards the subject of a story, the other is how the story makes the reader feel.
Must answer in order.
What is tone and mood?
This is a contrast between expectation and reality.
What is Irony?
This is often referred to as the god narration, or all knowing.
What is third person omniscient POV?
What is an unreliable narrator?
When a character is the main focus and often the center or victim of conflict, they are referred to as this.
What is the protagonist?
This mood might be created in a reader when they see dark imagery and suspenseful pacing?
What is fearful, suspensful, ominous, or anxious?
This literary device is solely for the purpose of telling us who characters are as people.
What is characterization?
This type of POV is likely to create the most suspense because the reader only knows the feelings and intent of the narrator.
What is first person POV?
If a narrator reveals that they have a personal relationship with one of the characters, their recollection of that person's actions are likely to be this.
Reliable or unreliable
What is unreliable?
These are two ways a character can be indirectly described or characterized.
What are actions and dialogue?
Author's use this, also known as word choice, to convey different tones and create different moods.
What is diction?