Literary Devices

Question 1

Author includes an event in the story that takes place BEFORE the main events of the story

Accepted Answer

Flashback

Question 2

Feelings/emotions that the reader has in response to what the author has written (setting, plot, or characters)

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Mood

Question 3

Sequence of events in a story: Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution

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Plot

Question 4

Person or the voice telling the story

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Narrator

Question 5

What perspective the reader sees the story from

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Point of view

Question 6

Central message or lesson that we can take from a book or story

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Theme

Question 7

Where and when a story takes place

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Setting

Question 8

When an author references another book, a piece of art, or a figure from religion or mythology

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Allusion

Question 9

When a character says something, but they really mean the opposite/something very different

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Verbal irony

Question 10

Character that STAYS THE SAME throughout the course of the story

Accepted Answer

Static character

Questions 10