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Characters
Linguistic Devices
Genres
Literary Devices
Points Of View
100
A person or thing that opposes the protagonist or hero/heroine of a story
What is an Antagonist
100
Conversation or speech among two or more characters.
What is Dialogue
100
Provide a critical review or commentary, especially when dealing with works of art or literature
What is Critique
100
A story or narrative, often told at some length, which has a deeper meaning below the surface
What is Allegory
100
Point of view where the narrator can take us all over the world, allow us to see into the minds of all the characters, and help us to see events from several points of view.
What is Omniscient
200
A representation or imitation of a person’s physical or personality traits that are so exaggerated they become comic or absurd
What is Caricature
200
A book in which one keeps a daily record of events and experiences.
What is Diction
200
Scripted fiction told visually in artist drawn pictures, usually in panels and speech bubbles
What is Comic/Graph novel
200
A reference to another event, person, place, or work of literature - usually implied rather than explicit and often provides another layer of meaning to what is being said
What is Allusion
200
Point of view where an “I” tells the story. This “I” is usually a character in the story. Our perception of all the other characters and events in the story is limited to the way this one character sees them and tells us about them.
What is First Person
300
a simple drawing showing the features of its subjects in a humorously exaggerated way, especially a satirical one in a newspaper or magazine.
What is a Cartoon
300
The language of a particular district, class, or group of persons. The term dialect encompasses the sounds, spelling, grammar, and diction employed by a specific people as distinguished from other persons either geographically or socially. Dialect is a major technique of characterization that reveals the social or geographic status of a character.
What is Dialect
300
A short narrative that tells the particulars of an interesting and/or humorous event
What is an Anecdote
300
Deliberate and extravagant exaggeration
What is Hyperbole
300
The particular perspective brought by a composer, responder or character within a text to the text or to matters within the text. It also entails the position or vantage point from which the events of a story seem to be observed and presented to us.
What is Point Of View
400
Persons—or animals or natural forces represented as persons—in a work of literature. Characters may be static (stay the same) or dynamic (undergo a change in personality or attitude) and flat (merely sketched out often stereotypical or stock) or round (more fully developed).
What is a Character
400
Use of language where the meaning is unclear or has two or more possible interpretations or meanings
What is Ambiguity
400
A sheet of information in the form of a table, graph, or diagram.
What is Chart
400
The use of words to create a picture or 'image' in the mind of the reader
What is Imagery
400
The main character or speaker in a poem, monologue, play, or story
What is Protagonist
500
The methods used to present the personality of a character in a work of literature, both direct and indirect.
What is Characterization
500
A device which allows an audience or a reader to know something that a character is unaware of.
What is Dramatic Irony
500
An account of someone's life written by someone else.
What is a Biography
500
At its simplest level, it means saying one thing while meaning another
What is Irony
500
Point of view where the writer tells the story from the vantage point of one character
What is Limited Third Person