Literary Devices
A comparison between two things using "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
What is logos?
The location a story takes place.
What is the setting?
Speaking about something that happened yesterday.
What is past tense?
Steve's defence lawyer.
Who is O'Brien?
The underlying message or topic developed through a story.
What is theme?
Appealing to people's emotions to persuade.
What is pathos?
Short story about two friends who have to go up against each other in a boxing tournament.
What is "The Amigo Brothers"?
Punctuation that must always be used around dialogue.
What are quotation marks?
The name of the prosecuting attorney.
Who is Petrocelli?
A direct reference to another work of art.
What is an allusion?
Using a credible or respected person to persuade.
What is ethos?
Short story about a boy who tries to steal a woman's purse, but then she takes him in and feeds him.
What is "Thank You Ma'am"?
What the acronym FANBOYS stands for.
What is: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so?
The eye witness.
Who is Lorelle Henry?
A physical altercation is an example of this type of conflict.
What is external conflict?
Presenting the opposite side of the argument.
A sudden memory from the past inserted into a narrative.
What is a flashback?
Words that come after dialogue to describe it.
What are dialogue tags?
The victim.
A clue that is intended to be misleading.
A type of argument that uses false reasoning.
The type of dialogue in realistic fiction should be this.
What is authentic to time, place and character?
Type of punctuation mark, other than brackets, that offset additional information in a sentence.
What are commas?
The four people said to have been involved in the felony murder.