Literary Devices One
What kind of irony is it when words are used to suggest the opposite of the literal meaning.
What is Verbal Irony?
A character who does not change throughout the course of the story.
What is a Static Character?
A literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.
what is Foreshadowing?
Occurs when the audience expects something to happen, but then something else happens instead.
What is Situational Irony?
An exaggeration.
What is Hyperbole?
A form of figurative language in which something that is not human is given human characteristics.
What is Personification?
An author’s attitude toward his or her subject and audience.
What is Tone?
The author’s use of developing a character through dialogue, thoughts, emotions, actions, and looks.
What is Indirect Characterization?
The author’s use of developing a character by providing physical and personality traits of an individual in the story.
What is Direct Characterization?
When the audience knows something the characters do not.
What is Dramatic Irony?
The writer or speaker refers either directly or indirectly to a person, event, or thing in history or to a work of art or literature. It is not a magic trick.
What is Allusion?
When an object takes on extra meaning beyond itself.
What is Symbolism?
One who develops and grows throughout the course of a story.
What is a Dynamic Character?
A narrator tells the story but is not a character in the story.
3rd person
A character who has one notable personality trait and is not complicated.
What is a Static Character?
A figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect.
What is an Oxymoron?
Archetypes are a recurrent symbol or idea in literature, art, or mythology. Example: " the mythological archetypes of good v evil"
What is the archetype in the short story “Button, Button”?
A person trying to change their fate
The struggle between opposing forces
conflict
A figure of speech that makes a comparison using "like" or "as."
What is Simile?
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things that are unrelated, but which share some common characteristics.
What is Metaphor?
Words that imitate sounds.
What is Onomatopoeia?
Conflict: An evil ghost clown, wearing a pink sundress and shouting cruel comments, is chasing Miranda down the street.
human v supernatural
Conflict: Michelle is climbing Mount Everest. To reach the top, she must hike through snow storms and climb along narrow, dangerous trails.
Human v Nature
A sniper fights for survival as another sniper has him pinned down on a rooftop
The plot of "The Sniper".
What is the main setting of “The Scarlet Ibis”?
Old Woman Swamp