Literary Devices
Writing Intended to be performed by actors
Drama
Words that sound like their meaning
Onomatopoeia
Mal-
Evil
____________________________ refers to the talking that goes on
between characters in a story.
Dialogue
The _______________________ is the highest point (turning point) in the
action of the story.
Climax
Language that puts a picture in the readers mid by appealing to one or more of the five scenes
Imagery
An obvious exaggeration
Hyperbole
viv-
live, life
Label the parts of the plot points correctly.
Exposition (Conflict follows)
Rising Action
Climax
Falling Action
Resolution
_______________________________ is figurative language in which a
nonhuman subject is given human characteristics.
Personification
The basic attitude expressed by the poem.
Tone
Stanza
leg-
read
Anything that stands for itself and something else is called
Symbol
This narrator is
all-knowing.
Omniscient Third Person
The opposite of what someone would expect
Irony
The repetition of sounds at the beginning of words
Alliteration
tract-
pull
An author writes for what
three purposes?
Persuade
Inform
Entertain
The type of conflict in which a character struggles with himself
and has trouble deciding what
to do is called _____________________________.
Internal Conflict
The main idea or topic of a non-fiction piece of writing
Central Idea
The arrangement of pattern of rhyming sounds at the end of each line. Example (AA, BB, CC)
Rhyme Scheme
trans-
across
Is this sentence correct?
Bobby Bron was born in Albany, New York. On March, 3, 2016.
No
An ________________________ is a phrase or expression which means
something different from what the words actually say.
Idiom