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ELA APS Lit. Devices
ELA APS Literary Devices for 8th grade CPMS students
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Allusion | A reference to a literary, mythological, or historical person, place or thing. |
| Irony | When one thing is expected to happen or be, and the exact opposite occurs. |
| Symbol | The use of any object, person, place or action that has meaning in itself and that stands for something larger. |
| Foreshadowing | Clues that suggest events that have yet to occur. |
| Epiphany | An event in which something is suddenly understood in a new way; a sudden realization; an "ah ha" moment. |
| Detail | Facts revealed by the author or speaker that support the attitude or tone of the work. |
| Suspense | Makes the reader uncertain or tense about the outcome of events. |
| Motif | A pattern or strand of imagery or symbolism in a work of literature. |
| Archetype | A type of character, action, or situation that occurs over and over in literature; a pattern or example that occurs in literature and life. |
| Tone | The writer's attitude toward his or her subject. |
| Theme | A central message or a lesson about life or people. |
| Point of View | The perspective from which a story is told. |
| Mood | The feeling created in the reader. |
| Repetition | A devices in which words, sounds, and/or ideas are used more than once to enhance rhythm and to create emphasis. |
| Setting | The time and place of the action of a literary work. |
| Imagery | The words or phrases a writer uses by appealing to the five senses. |
| Characterization | The methods used by an author to create a character, including: the character's physical appearance; the character's own speech, thoughts, actions, and/or feelings; other characters' speech, thoughts, actions, and/or feelings about the character. |
| Motivation | A reason that explains the character's thoughts, feelings, actions, or behavior. |
| Protagonist | The central character. |
| Antagonist | The character opposing the protagonist; can be a person, idea, or force. |
| Dynamic Character | A character that undergoes a change in actions or beliefs. |
| Static Character | A character that does not grow or change throughout the story. |
| Diction | Word choice. |
| Denotation | The specific dictionary definition of a word. |
| Connotation | The emotions or associations a word normally arouses in people; positive or negative. |
| Figures of Speech | Simile, Metaphor, Personification and Pun. |
| Simile | A comparison of two different things using the words LIKE or AS. |
| Metaphor | A comparison of two different things without using the words LIKE or AS. The comparison uses is, of, was, were, are and for. |
| Personification | Giving inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics. |
| Pun | A play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have a sharply different meaning. |
| Paradox | When elements of a statement contradict each other. |
| Idiom | An accepted phrase or expression having a meaning different from the literal. |
| Oxymoron | A form of paradox that combines a pair of opposite terms into a single unusual expression. |
| Hyperbole | A deliberate, extravagant and often outrageous exaggeration. |
| Conflict | A struggle between two opposing forces. |
| Man vs. Man | When a character has a problem with another character. |
| Man vs. Self | When a character must make a decision about a problem he is having within himself. |
| Man vs. Society | When a character has a problem with a tradition or rule of society. |
| Man vs. Nature | When a character has a problem with a force of nature such as cold, storms, earthquakes, fire, etc. |
| Man vs. Fate | When a character has a problem with something he can't do anything about, such as God, luck, death, etc. |
| Plot | The sequence of events or actions in a short story, novel, play or narrative poem. |
| Exposition | Setting and characters of the story. |
| Inciting Incident | Conflict. |
| Rising Action | The action and events that take place in the story and build up to the critical moment when the main conflict in confronted. |
| Climax | The most critical moment in the story; the point at which the main conflict is at its highest point. |
| Falling Action | Events that occur after the climax and lead up to closure. |
| Denouement | Resolution. The problem set up in the inciting incident is unraveled; the theme is revealed. |
| Flashback | The interruption of events that happened at an earlier time. |
| Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. |
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