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Literary Devices
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The Plot
What are you reading?
100
  • Artifact

What is an older object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest?

100

Flashback

is a literary device by which a work presents material that occurred prior to the opening scene.

100

Sally sells seashells by the sea shore

What is Alliteration or consonance

100

The most intense, exciting, or important point of a story.

What is Climax

100

In this story a boy travels the land and learns martial arts to  cure his sister from a demonic curse.

What is Demon Slayer?

200

Oblivious

What is to be unaware of something?

200

Foreshadowing

the presentation of material in a work in such a way that later events are prepared for. The purpose of foreshadowing is to prepare the reader or viewer for action to come

200

She was as quick as a cheetah when she ran for track & field.

What is a simile?

200

The background information on the characters and setting explained at the beginning of the story.

What is Exposition?

200

Nightwing, Starfire, Raven, Cyborg, and Beast Boy take on the role of teachers and mentors for superpowered teens. Their goal: to shape the next generation of heroes.

Teen Titans academy

300

Reflect

  • What is to think deeply or carefully about?

300

Tone

●Is the writer’s attitude toward his or her subject

300

I would sell my soul to the devil himself for some cold air right now! 

What is hyperbole?

300

The ending of a story.

What is Resolution/Denouement?

300

Nikki Maxwell chronicles her life through text and art—her move to a new school, her battles with queen bee MacKenzie, and her zany adventures with her BFFs Chloe and Zoey by her side.

What are the Dork Diaries?

400
  • Perspective

 a particular attitude toward or way of regarding something; a point of view; the physical position of a viewer in relation to different points of interest.

400

Mood

●the atmosphere or feeling created by the writer and expressed through setting.

400

Yumi gave Martisha the cold shoulder after she talked to Pam last night.

what is an idiom?

400
The situation is becoming more serious and dire, and stakes are raised. 

What is Rising Action?

400

READERS BEWARE BECAUSE YOU ARE IN FOR A SCARE! This book series by R.L. Stine tells stories of monsters and mysteries.

What is Goosebumps?

500

Zenith

What is the highest point of  a structure?
500

Setting

 the time and place in which it occurs

500

Kaboom went the cannons as they destroyed the battle ship.

What is onomatopoeia?

500

After the climax has occurred the characters deal with the fall out of their decisions choices and actions.

What is falling action

500

Greg Heffley records the trials and triumphs of middle school.

What is diary of a wimpy kid?