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Literary Devices
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| POINT OF VIEW | The perspective from which a story is told. |
| CHARACTER | A person or animal in a story. |
| CHARACTERIZATION | A description of the distinctive nature or features of someone or something. |
| MOTIVATION | The reason(s) a character behaves in a certain way. |
| SETTING | The time AND place during which a story is set |
| TONE | The author’s attitude (feelings) toward his/her subject matter, characters, and audience. |
| ATMOSPHERE | The physical surrounding that adds to the overall feeling of a story |
| MOOD | The way a reader feels as he/she reads a story as described with one or two adjectives. |
| CONFLICT | A struggle between opposing characters or opposing forces. |
| SUSPENSE | The uncertainty or anxiety that a reader feels about what will happen next in the story. |
| SYMBOLISM | A person, a place, a thing, or an event that has meaning in itself and stands for something beyond itself as well. |
| MOTIF | Any element of a story that is repeated in different stories at different times. |
| THEME | The overall message or truth about life in a piece of literature. |
| FORESHADOWING | The use of clues or hints to suggest events that will occur later in the story. |
| FLASHBACK | Interruption in the present action of a plot to show events that happened at an earlier time. |
| SITUATIONAL IRONY | What happens is very different from what we expected would happen |
| VERBAL IRONY | A contrast between what is said or written and what is really meant |
| DRAMATIC IRONY | the reader/audience knows something the characters don’t know |
| ALLUSION | A reference to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from literature, the arts, history, religion, mythology, sports, |
| SIMILE | A comparison of two things that are not alike using words such as “like” or “as.” |
| METAPHOR | A comparison of two things that are not alike where one becomes the other. |
| ALLITERATION | Repetition of the same beginning consonant sound of words that are close together. |
| PERSONIFICATION | An object or animal is spoken about as if it had human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes. |
| ONOMATOPOEIA | Words whose sounds imitate or suggest their meaning. |
| IMAGERY | Language that appeals to the five senses: sight, sound, touch, taste, or smell. |
| RHYME SCHEME VS. FREE VERSE | Rhymed poetry is identified by the pattern of the rhyming lines (based upon the last word in the line) and identified by LETTERS. Free verse poetry does not have a regular rhyme scheme and resembles prose |
| HYPERBOLE | Overstating something for the purpose of creating a comic effect. |
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