Literary Devices One
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 speech, 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.
What is Allusion?
Anything that appears on the surface to be one thing, yet represents something else and carries a hidden, deeper meaning.
What is Symbolism?
One who develops and grows throughout the course of a story.
What is a Dynamic Character?
A character who has a complex personality; he or she is often portrayed as a conflicted and contradictory person.
What is a Round Character?
A character who has one notable personality trait and is not complicated.
What is a Flat Character?
A figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect.
What is an Oxymoron?
A character who contrasts with another character - usually the protagonist— to highlight particular qualities of the other character.
What is Foil?
A play on words that are alike but different in meaning.
What is a Pun?
A figure of speech that makes a comparison using "like" or "as."
What is Simile?
A figure of speech that makes an implicit, implied, or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated, but which share some common characteristics.
What is Metaphor?
Words that imitate sounds.
What is Onomatopoeia?
A comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it.
What is Analogy?
What is Ms. Underwood's dog's full name?
What is Buster Rhymes Underwood-Hofer?
An overused, worn-out word or phrase.
What is Cliche?
What is Ms. Underwood's full name?
What is Brittany Elizabeth Underwood?