Literary Terms & Devices EOY Test Review

Literary techniques that involve surprising, interesting, or amusing contradictions:

Problem in a character's mind:

I was a hungry bear after the game.

The source of conflict for the main character:

The boy was scared. Also, his friend was worried. They didn't know what to do.

Causes a plot to become tense or entangled as a result of the conflict:

A less important series of events within the main plot:

Human characteristics are given to non-human things:

The narrator is a character in the story and tells the story using "I":

A big exaggeration to emphasize something:

An action goes back to an earlier time:

A central idea, concern, or purpose; the take-away message:

The turning point of the story, usually near the ending where the most suspenseful event occurs

A text structure that shows a problem and then presents a solution to the problem:

With an old phone, you were attached to the wall; you are not with a cell. Both make calls.

A writer's typical way of writing:

A conversation between characters:

The sequence of events:

An outside narrator tells the story from only one character's perspective:

Refers to the atmosphere or feeling conveyed by a work; how the text makes the reader feel:

The use of clues that suggest or hint at what may happen later in the story:

Anything that stands for or represents something abstract (like an idea):

I quickly ran down the stairs. I could hear my little brother running around upstairs.

When consonant sounds are repeated at the beginnings of words:

The form of a language spoken by people in a particular region or group:

The feeling a word gives the reader (could be positive, negative, or neutral).

Inside the crazy classroom, a cacophony of sound was heard.

It was raining outside. As a result, the sidewalks flooded. Also, the cars splashed everyone.

An expression that has a meaning different than its literal words:

A comparison using like or as:

The moon shone like a giant flashlight.

The voice through which an author tells a story:

The main character or the hero:

This text structure describes a situation and tells what resulted because of that situation:

The beginning of the story when setting, characters, and conflict are introduced: