Readings
Literary Devices
Vocab
vocab definition
Rhetorical Devices
100

A story of Loyalty and Betrayal.

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar-William Shakespeare

100

The words a character speaks.

Dialogue

100

Something unnatural/unexplainable

anomaly

100

nether

Below.

100

Nevermore quoth the Raven. Nevermore, nevermore, nevermore.

Repetition

200

A Main Character likes soft things.

Of Mice And Men- John Steinbeck

Lennie loves soft things

200

A character details a personality.

Characterization

200

To make easy or easier

Facilitate

200

Lucrative

make a great deal of profit

200

They have the strength of 100 men.

figurative language


300

A story of many for the quest for equality.

The Letters from Birmingham Jail- Martin Luther King Jr.

300

A method of showing what might happen in the future.

Foreshadowing

300

A system in which people are placed above one another bases on rank or other class.

Hierarchy

300

Abysmal

Extremely bad.
300

The beast had but one Achilles heel.

Allusion 

400

The author is Mary Shelly.

Frankenstein- Mary Shelly

400

The subject of a story or the main topic.

Theme

400

I lost the topic of the conversation I didn't mean to ...

Digress

400

beleaguer

Lay siege to.
400

ONCE upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, —
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping.-Edgar Allen Poe

Alliteration


500

A boy named Simon does not survive.

Lord of The Flies-William Golding 

500

When to stories Co-exist.

Parallel episode

500

The man was looking to buy a car but the vehicle was out of his price range he could not ...

Defray

500

anthropomorphic

Human-like or human-shaped.

500

Imagine the thousands that will suffer those that fought just as Dr. King Jr.

I don't know which any of; Ethos, pathos, logos.