Identifying Literary Devices

A literary work is the writer's attitude toward his/her audience and subject.

Introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, and conclusion are also known as...?

When a writer says one thing but means another. 

A literary element that evokes certain feelings in readers through words and descriptions.

This is also known as man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. self, man vs society. 

Descriptive or figurative language used in literature to create word pictures for the reader.

Form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group.

In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo thinks Juliet is dead and the audience knows she is not.

Sarcasm is always verbal irony, but verbal irony is not always sarcasm.

The fire department burns down. 

An interruption in the present of a vivid memory that is set in the past.

In literary text this device uses clues that suggest events that have yet to occur.

This can be defined as that middle ground between what was said and what was meant. 

Formal division of lines in a poem.

If you say one thing and mean another with hurtful intentions this is called... 

Simile, metaphor, hyperbole, analogy, and repetition are also known as...?

A central message or insight into life revealed through the literary work.

This exists whenever something is meant to represent something else.