Duplicate of Literary Terms (Literary Devices)

A character that grows or changes over the course of the story

Problem or struggle between opposing forces like a person vs. society

Conclusion of the story

When someone is seeing a situation based upon their own beliefs, values, and experiences

The quality of having a big ego and being arrogant

Reference to a well-known person, event, place, literary work or work of art.

Hints that the author gives of things that are to come in the story.

A distinctive feature or idea in an artistic or literary work; mini theme like freedom, love

A character that stays the same throughout a story

Atmosphere or feeling we get from the story

A quality in a work of fiction that builds excitement or uncertainty

The fatal flaw of a tragic hero that leads to their downfall (often death)

Which Irony? A contradiction between what a character thinks and what the audience knows to be true.

A contrast between what appears to be real and what is actually real.

Giving inanimate objects human characteristics

The introduction of setting, character, and basic situation in a story

A universal idea or lesson about life that comes from a story; can be understood by most cultures

Grouping of lines together in poetry

A literary technique in which two or more things are placed side by side for the purpose of comparison

A description that appeals to one of the five senses

In a story, the highest or most intense point in the development

The main character in a story

A comparison between two things using like or as

Details which are hinted at but not directly stated

A conversation between characters; can be used to move the action along.

Anything that stands for or represents something else

Writer's attitude toward his or her subject

Comparison of two things without using like or as.