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Literary Devices
100
A category of literary composition.
What is genre?
100
Written account of a person's life, written by said person.
What is an autobiography?
100
Demonstration of long and short patterns through syllables in verse form.
What is rythm?
100
Dialect or informal language. "Ain't
What is colloquial language?
100
Similarity between like features of two things.
What is an analogy?
200
A minor fictional character in a work of fiction who does not undergo substantial change or growth.
What is a flat character?
200
Written account of someone's life, written by someone else.
What is a biography?
200
A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem, set of by a space.
What is a stanza?
200
Spontaneous speech in situations that may be described as natural or real life, use of low dialect.
What is informal language?
200
A figure of speech detaching the speaker from reality and addressing an imaginary character.
What is an apostrophe?
300
A way of narration in which the narrator's knowledge is limited to one character
What is limited omniscient?
300
A piece of writing describing something in detail.
What is a descriptive essay?
300
something used for or regarded as representing something else
What is a symbol?
300
A type of language that consists of words and phrases that are very informal, usually used in a group of young people. "Ain't bad"
What is slang?
300
A statement that is self-contradicting because it often contains two true statements.
What is a paradox?
400
A way of narration in which the narrator is outside the story and refers to characters using pronouns like he,she,it or they.
What is third person?
400
Piece of writing written in a formal manner.
What is a formal essay?
400
Use of figurative language to represent objects. "He fell down like an old tree in a storm"
What is imagery?
400
The comparison of one thing to another, insinuating that one thing is another
What is a metaphor?
400
use of humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule to expose and criticize people
What is a satire?
500
The central idea of the story.
What is the theme?
500
Statement describing the main idea of a piece of writing.
What is a thesis statement?
500
A phrase that gives advice and effectively embodies a commonplace truth.
What is a proverb?
500
The presentation of something as being smaller than it is.
What is an understatement?
500
An extreme exaggeration used to make a point.
What is a hyperbole?