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Literary Devices: general review
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#English Literature Newland Junior HighSchool
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An object, setting, event, animal, or person that is itself, but also has another meaning is a
metaphor
symbol
plot
flashback
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What is the plot?
The sequence of events in a story
The perspective from which a story is told
The main character
The conversation between characters
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Using language to portray sensory experiences using the five senses is...
onomatopoeia
imagery
personification
foreshadowing
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The feeling the reader gets from a work of literature is the...
symbol
characterization
theme
mood
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What is a metaphor?
Language used to portray sensory experiences using 5 senses
A comparison using like or as
Compares two unlike things to reveal a quality or aspect
The central or dominating idea
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When a writer inserts a scene into a story that occurred before the present time, it is a...
symbol
flashback
point of view
dialogue
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What is dialogue?
When two unlike things are compared using like or as
The conversation between characters in a work of literature
The sequence of events in a story
The central or dominating idea
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Foreshadowing is...
a clue or hint about something that is going to happen later
a struggle between opposing forces
the environment of the story (place, time, location)
describing animals, objects, or ideas with human qualities
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The opponent or enemy of the main character is the...
protagonist
simile
symbol
antagonist
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What is a theme?
The sequence of events in a story
A comparison using like or as
A struggle between opposing forces
The central idea; the "message"
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Where a story takes place (time period, location, characteristics of surroundings) is its...
Conflict
Setting
Mood
Point of View
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What is conflict?
The way an author reveals a character's personality
Clues or hints about something that is going to happen later
A struggle between opposing forces
Conversation between characters
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What is hyperbole?
The way an author reveals a character's personality
Describing animals, objects, or ideas with human qualities
The feelings the reader gets from a story
Extreme exaggeration used for emphasis or effect
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The main or central character in a work of literature is the...
protagonist
flashback
theme
antagonist
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Words that imitate the sounds of what they describe are called...
conflict
onomatopoeia
imagery
hyperbole
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What is the means through which an author reveals a character's personality?
Personification
Alliteration
Characterization
Mood
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What is a simile?
A comparison of 2 unlike things using like or as
The main or central character in the story
The feelings a reader gets from the story
The way an author reveals a character's personality
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What is alliteration?
The central or dominating idea
The feelings a reader gets from the story
The sequence of events in a story
When two or more words in a group begin with the same letter
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Describing nonhuman animals, objects, or ideas as though they possess human qualities/emotions:
characterization
mood
personification
alliteration
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The perspective from which the story is told is the...
point of view
setting
conflict
mood
