Year 8 English Author's techniques and Literary devices

Two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect

"I dare say it'll be your business, Mr Loke. You can trust me on that."

"Eyes scanning the class as if looking for prey"

When one kind of object or action is used in place of another to suggest a likeness between them

Device that interrupts the chronological order of the narrative to take a reader back in time

The location and time frame in which the action of a narrative takes place

"Don't just bugger off to Westfield."

"It was beautiful - and wrong"

Device that highlights and explains the details about a character in a story

Using “like” or “as” to compare two things and show a common quality between them

A central idea or concept in a text

"In summer it was a sweatbox"

Device used to give an indication or hint of what is to come later in the story

The way in which a story is narrated

The arrangement of story elements

A word or expression that is commonplace in a specific language or location