Literary Devices
This literary device makes a comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
The highest point of suspense or tension in a story.
What is the climax?
Two characters getting into a fist fight!
What is character vs character?
This one character is clearly central to the story with all major events having some importance to this character.
"They leaped like deer on the moon".
What is a simile?
This literary device makes a comparison WITHOUT using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
The narrator speaks from the third person and is aware of all thoughts or feelings of other characters.
What is Omniscient point of view?
A family is trying to escape an avalanche while on a skiing trip.
What is Character vs Environment?
Generally, they are considered a “villain” and make the life or goal of the main character MUCH harder!
What is the antagonist?
The perspective in which Harrison Bergeron is written.
What is third person perspective?
The word "BOOM" is an example of this literary device.
What is an onomatopoeia?
The intended lesson to be learned from a piece of literature.
What is theme?
A character with many sided personalities that change, for better or worse, by the end of the story.
What is a dynamic character?
"Scrap metal was hung all over him. Ordinarily, there was a certain symmetry, a military neatness to the handicaps issued to strong people, but Harrison looked like a walking junkyard. In the race of life, Harrison carried three hundred pounds. And to oNset his good looks, the H-G men required that he wear at all times a red rubber ball for a nose, keep his eyebrows shaved oN, and cover his even white teeth with black caps at snaggle-tooth random"
What is imagery?
The act of giving non-human things human characteristics.
What is personification?
The location, time, and what the world is like in a story.
What is setting?
Jenny is protesting the oppressive prison system with thousands of people outside the government building.
What is character vs society?
A character with many sided and complex personalities.
What is a round character?
"It became their obvious intention to kiss the ceiling. They kissed it".
What is hyperbole?
When the audience knows something that the characters do not.
What is dramatic irony?
The 6 different types of conflict!
What is:
Character vs. Character
Character vs. Environment
Character vs. Self
Character vs. Society
Character vs. Supernatural
Character vs. Technology
Abdul is struggling to pay his rent because he keeps losing his job. He is a mechanic and the entire factory that he works at has been replaced by robots.
What is character vs technology?
A Stereotype, they have one or two characteristics that never change and are emphasized.
What is a static character?
The danger of total equality and the importance of individualism.
What is theme?