Literary Devices
The use of words, places, characters, or objects to represent something beyond their literal meaning.
What is symbolism?
A play with a happy ending.
What is a comedy?
The highest point of action or conflict in a story.
What is a climax?
This teacher is in the room right now.
Who is Mrs. Ghormley?
The process of analyzing a literary work in order to reveal its meaning.
A play characterized by death and disaster.
What is tragedy?
The series of events that lead up to the climax.
This teacher wishes he/she knew more about dance.
Who is Mr. Vanore?
An examination of the details, elements, and structure of a piece of literature.
What is Literary Analysis
A speech in a play that reveals a character’s thoughts to the audience (regardless if any other characters are listening).
The beginning of a story when characters, setting, and the central conflict are introduced.
What is exposition?
Who is Mr. Lile?
Literature from post-colonial contexts. Usually written in the language of the “colonizers” but from the perspective of indigenous peoples.
What is Post Colonial Literature?
A play that depicts important people and events in history.
What is a history play?
The end of the story when the consequences of all the conflict are finally woven together and resolved.
What is denouement?
This teacher likes to think about the beginning of the universe.
Who is Mr. Jones?
A literary technique in which the audience or reader knows something the character or characters do not.
What is dramatic irony?
One statement that has two very different meanings.
What is a double entendres?
The part of a story after the climax, when the consequences of the conflict begin to fall into place.
What is the falling action?
This teacher's son play in band with Mrs. Ghormley's daughter.
Who is Mrs. Gorman-Henry?