Literary Devices
What is a simile?
The part of a plot between the climax and the resolution
What is the falling action?
The reason a character does a certain thing or acts a certain way
What is character motivation?
The hero or central character or leading figure in a story
What is the protagonist?
A word that takes the place of a noun (like he, she, or they)
What is a pronoun?
A reference to a person, thing, or literary work outside of the text
What is allusion?
Information about the setting and the characters is usually located in this part of a plot
What is the exposition?
A meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly
What is connotation?
A person who tells a story from his or her point of view
What is the narrator?
Modifies or describes a noun or pronoun
What is an adjective?
It gives a thing, idea, or animal human-like qualities
What is personification?
The part of the story that builds on tension and develops the main conflict
What is rising action?
What is tone?
It refers to the time and place in which a story takes place
What is setting?
Expresses action or being
Exaggerated language that is not meant to be taken literally
The final part of a plot that settles the conflict
What is the resolution?
Factual information that helps the reader reach a conclusion and form an opinion about something
What is evidence?
A character, or a group of characters, which stands in opposition to the hero
What is the antagonist?
A group of words that functions as a unit but lacks a subject or predicate
What is a phrase?
When an object or idea that has a meaning beyond its literal function in a story
What is symbolism?
The central struggle that drives the plot of a story or, more generally, any struggle between opposing forces in a story
What is the conflict?
When a character struggles with their own opposing desires or beliefs
The central, deeper meaning of a written work
What is theme?
A sentence missing its subject or verb (error)