ELA HS Literary Devices

What is a literary device where the exact opposite or the unexpected happens for critical or humorous effects?

Which literary term where you use “like” or “as” to compare two different things and show a common quality between them?

What is the sentence that introduces the main argument or point of view of a writing called?

What refers to the emotional response that the writer wishes to evoke in the reader through a story?

Is a feeling or idea that a word has is what kind of literary device?

A figure of speech in which an author or speaker purposely and obviously exaggerates to an extreme is called?

What is a common figure of speech that makes a comparison by relating one thing to another unrelated thing called?

Occuring any time the author uses details to teach us about a person is called?

The central idea, topic, or point of a story, essay, or narrative is called what?

Hinting at something that will happen later in the story is an exmaple of?

This literary device uses the five senses to help readers get a better understanding of the enviroment and those in it

A literary device that reflects the writer’s attitude toward the subject matter is called?