Mid Term Literary devices Flashcards | StudBudMid Term Literary devices
9th Grade Literature
1metaphor
- gaping and crunching like a mountain lion
- comparing two characters to find the differences
- comparing two things using like or as
- He had the look of a new born baby
2personification
- you have a funny face
- floats like a butterfly stings like a bee
- it took you forever to get here
- the moon winked at me last night
31st person point of view
- knowing several peoples ideas
- how many times do you have to be told to do something
- all knowing
- I told you that I would take the car away
4setting
- Auschwitz
- Hungary
- time and place of a story
- The concentration camps
52nd person point of view
- Story told where you know all points of view
- I told you that I would get even
- Story told from the narrator's point of view
- You did a good job on the float for the homecoming parade
6hyperbole
- like squirming puppies
- I told you a million time not to do that
- dawn with her fingertips of rose
- death sat there huge
7plot
- exposition, rising action
- the sequence of events in a text
- what happens in a story
- climax, falling action, denouement
8antagonist
- the good guy
- the bad guy
- the person who is in conflict with the main character
- the main character in the story
9simile
- Death sat looking at the me
- I am as hungry as a horse
- They looked like wilted tree stand there
- The dog was a lighten bolt when he ran after the squirrel
10protagonist
- the main character of a text
- the hero of the story
- the person who has conflict with the protagonist
- the side kick
