Literary Devices
This literary device uses exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
What is hyperbole?
This is the main character in a story, often facing the central conflict.
Who is the protagonist?
Where you put the information of the essay?
What is introduction?
This punctuation mark is used to indicate a pause between parts of a sentence.
What is a comma?
This term describes words that imitate the sounds they describe.
What is onomatopoeia?
This figure of speech involves comparing two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
This is the sequence of events that make up a story.
What is the plot?
The series of events that lead to the climax of a story.
What is rising action?
The practice of starting a line of text further from the margin than the main part of the text.
What is indenting?
This type of literature often uses humor, irony, or exaggeration to criticize people's stupidity or vices.
What is satire?
This term describes giving human characteristics to non-human objects or animals.
What is personification?
The time and place in which a story occurs.
What is the setting?
The events following the climax, leading to the resolution.
What is falling action?
The recurrence of sounds, words, phrases, lines, or stanzas in a piece of writing.
What is repetition?
Literature that describes imaginary events and people.
What is fiction?
The repetition of the same initial consonant sounds in a series of words.
What is alliteration?
The struggle between opposing forces, typically driving the plot.
What is conflict?
This term refers to a group of lines forming a unit in a poem.
What is a stanza?
This is a punctuation mark often used to show exitment.
what is an "!"?
The systematic arrangement of ideas in written or spoken form to achieve clarity and effectiveness.
What is a rant?
A direct comparison between two unlike things without using "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor?
The central message or underlying meaning of a literary work.
What is the theme?
Words or phrases that provide a connection between ideas, sentences, and paragraphs.
What are transition words?
The use of language to convince or influence others.
What is persuasion?
The organized pattern or structure of a story or a piece of writing.
What is narrative structure?