Mrs. Edwards Literary Devices Review

Speech by one character in a play, story, or poem.

The ordinary form of written language

A brief story about an interesting, amusing, or strange event

Prose writing that presents and explains ideas or that tells about real people

The use of words that imitate sounds.

Use in a literary work of clues that suggest events that have yet to occur.

Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses.

Writing that tells a story.

A speaker or character who tells a story.

A long work of fiction

Reason that explains why a character thinks, feels, acts, or behaves a certain way

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

A conversation between characters

The high point of interest or suspense

Figurative language used to create word pictures readers.

Struggle between opposing forces.

A category or type of literature

Three-line verse form

Figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else.

The repetition of initial consonant sounds

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