Literary Devices
the turning point or point of highest interest in the story
What is the climax?
a character in the story is the narrator
What is first person point of view?
The main character in fiction or drama
What is the protagonist?
A contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality
What is irony?
this is what Beauty's father does for a living
What is a merchant?
the struggle between opposing forces
What is the conflict?
a narrator outside of the story tells the story
What is the third person point of view?
A long narrative poem that relates the great deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies the values of a particular society.
What is an epic?
Hindu or Buddhist thought that a person's action in this life determines his or her fate or his or her future existence.
What is karma?
This goddess's temple was ignored because of Psyche
Who is Venus
The final outcome or ending of the story
What is the resolution?
An account of a person's life as told by someone else.
What is a biography?
The series of related events that make up a story or drama
What is plot?
the endless cycle of death and rebirth
What is samsara?
Who was the most beautiful woman in all of Greece, who represents the human soul?
Who is Psyche?
The perspective from which a story is told
What is the point of view?
Language that appeals to the senses
What is imagery?
A kind of writing that ridicules human weakness, vice, or folly in order to bring about social reform
What is satire?
poetry in which the speaker expresses longing for union with his or her beloved; named for Vishnu, the “preserver god” in Hinduism
What is Vaishnava poetry?
Psyche’s unseen husband tells her not to visit with these people as it will lead to her downfall
Who are her sisters?
the author leaves clues in the story that hint to what is going to happen next
What is foreshadowing?
Prose written that includes invented material and does not claim to be factually true.
What is fiction?
The use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning. “buzz, bark, splash.
What is Onomatopoeia?
The stories that tell about the previous lives of the Buddha, in both human and animal form, and exhibit some kind of virtue (good or positive value)
What are Jataka tales?