Lit. Device Definitions
When and where the story takes place.
What is setting?
A comparison using the words "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
She ran fast like a cheetah.
What is a simile?
Juliet is the sun.
What is a metaphor?
To Kill a Mockingbird- Format this title if you're HANDWRITING
What is underlining?
What is imagery?
A comparison without using the words "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor?
The wind whispered through the trees.
What is personification?
This story takes place in New York City during a cold winter storm.
What is setting?
Fix this sentence to make it grammatically correct: my friend abby invited me to spain over the summer
What is... My friend Abby invited me to Spain over the summer.
When the opposite happens of what we expect to happen.
What is irony?
Giving human-like qualities, feelings, actions, or thoughts to nonhuman things such as animals, objects, or ideas.
What is personification?
When a police station gets robbed.
What is irony?
The puppy's fur felt soft against my hand.
What is imagery?
Fix this sentence to make it grammatically correct: its important that i study for my english final because if i fail i cant go to the harry styles concert at madison square garden in october
What is... It's important that I study for my English final because if I fail, I can't go to the Harry Styles concert at Madison Square Garden in October.
The practice of using visible objects, colors, or actions to represent larger, abstract ideas.
What is symbolism?
-A struggle that happens inside a character's mind.
-A struggle that happens between a character and an outside force.
What is internal conflict and external conflict?
Coming of Age: The transition from youth to maturity, self-discovery, and the loss of innocence.
What is theme?
Their wedding rings represent their love and commitment to eachother.
What is symbolism?
To Kill a Mockingbird- format title when TYPING
What is italics?
The big idea or message the author wants you to think about. It's usually a lesson about life, people, or the world.
What is theme?
-When the author shows the reader what a character is like through their actions, speech, thoughts, appearance, or how other characters react to them.
-When the author tells the reader what a character is like.
What is direct and indirect characterization?
What is direct characterization?
Lisa kept her eyes to the floor and whispered so softly that no one could hear her.
What is indirect characterization?
-When a story is told from the perspective of a character inside the story (I, me, us, etc.)
-When a narrator is outside of the story and uses pronouns like he, she, they, them, his, or her to say what's happening.
What is first-person and third-person point of view?