Literary Devices
Making a reference to another work of literature, art, or history?
What is a allusion?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY:
Dorothy faces off against the Wicked Witch
What is man vs man?
When there's a hurricane raging outside and someone remarks "what lovely weather we're having,"
What is verbal irony
The "bad guy" of a story is called what?
What is the antagonist?
This text structure uses words like then, next, and last
What is sequential/chronological?
A clue to suggest what will happen and create suspense in a story?
What is a foreshadowing?
In the movie "IT" Seven young kids are about to face their worst nightmare -- an ancient, shape-shifting evil that emerges from the sewer every 27 years to prey on the town's children
What is man vs supernatural?
"Sure, I'd LOVE to spend another 3 hours in the heat trying to find your earing..."
What is verbal irony?
The part of the plot that introduces the characters, setting, and conflict is
What is the exposition?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY:
Tells you about a topic and tells you all it's characteristics
What is description?
The feeling created in the reader by the author
What is mood?
In Life of Pi, the protagonist must face a tiger trapped in the boat with him
What is man vs nature?
Girl in a horror film hides in a closet where the killer just went (the audience knows the killer is there, but she does not).
What is dramatic irony?
This point of view uses the pronouns I, me, myself.
A strength of this pov is that your reader will connect with your character very easily
What is first person?
This text structure shows how one event led to another event.
What is cause and effect?
“The wind was howling through the night.”
What is personification?
In Flowers for Algernon, Charlie struggled with losing his intelligence, with the focus on the character’s feelings about his circumstances.
What is man vs self?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY:
At the end of "The Ransom of the Red Chief", the kidnappers paid "red chief's" dad to take him back and ran away
What is situational irony?
What is another word for the resolution? (the untying and Mrs. Heath's favorite word)
What is denoument?
This text tells about an issue and tells possible ways to fix that issue
What is problem and solution?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY:
A woman is about to get married. As she puts on her veil, she remembers her fiancé three years before, swearing he would make her his wife someday. A tear comes to her eye and she prepares to walk down the aisle.
What is a flashback?
Wilbur fights for his survival against a world that eats pigs in Charlotte’s Web
What is man vs society?
A fire station burns down.
What is situational irony?
This point of view is allowed to move between the perspectives of multiple major characters and can be in many places at once (make sure your have ____ person and qualifying word!)
What is third person omniscient?