Literary Devices-FSA-ELA Glossary of Terms

A reference to a statement,person,place,or event from history, the author thinks you'll know.

To translate, analyze, or give examples drawn from a text.

To form opinions about what is read. Readers can form their ideas about characters or events.

The most important idea expressed in a piece of writing.

The voice of a character that is developed by the writer, so the reader understands the events.

To Compare, Contrast, Deduce, or Categorize.

The act or process of deriving logical conclusions from premises know or assumed to be true

Used to create mood, emotion, or experience. Helps appeal to the readers senses.

A Literary Technique used to get a particular effect, such as language or figurative language.

Unfamiliar words are often surrounded by words, that help readers understand the meaning.

Words that are not meant to be understood on a literal level.

The process of pointing out what two or more things have in common.

An interruption in the action of a plot to tel what happened at an earlier time.

Theme, Setting, Conflict, Character's Plot, and Point of View.

The Villain or bad guy, doesn't agree with the main character.

A words literal meaning.

Character vs. an outside force, another character, society as a whole, or something in nature.

What happens after the Climax?

Similarities and Differences between 2 or more objects.

A struggle or issue between characters. The story's main problem. They clash and don't agree.

An opposite meaning of a word is?

The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.

Time sequence:first, than, next, finally. Also text structure/organizational pattern.

The repetition of a same sound, usually of a consonant, at the beginning of two or more words.

A punctuation mark used to introduce a description, explanation, list, or quotation.

Methods used to make up the "People" in the book, the description of physical appearance etc.

The way an author looks at a piece of writing

The beginning of a plot structure is ?

The dissimilarities and difference between things, qualities, events, or even problems.

What a word suggest or implies.

Language that appeals to the senses. Descriptive words and phrases.

A writer or speakers choice of words an way of arranging words in a sentence.

The substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive.

A traditional story, has basic questions about the universe.

A Comparison of two thing that ave some quality in common, Doesn't have like, as, then.

A struggle between opposing needs, desires, or emotions within a single character.

A writer's use of hints or clues to suggest events will occur later in the plot.

The reason for creating a book or piece of writing.Maybe also to entertain, or persuade.

The study of Origins of words.

Imagination in a novel or short story.

A contrast between what is expected and what actually exists/happens. Exaggeration, or sarcasm.

A literary work, such as fable. Do not count your blessing till they appear.

A figure of speech when a statement is exaggerated for humorous effect.

Because of my broken arm, the doctor said I couldn't play baseball.

An inference even though you have not read the lines, what he or she already knows, and facts.