36 LITERARY DEVICES

A deliberate exaggeration or overstatement is a HYPERBOLE.

CHARACTERIZATION is a non-human subject that is given human characteristics?

An Understatement is the deliberate downplay of a situation to create humor or special effects.

Which Disney movie is Elsa in?

Emotions or associations a word normally arouses in people feeling, hearing, or reading the word.

The perspective from which a story is told.

The repetition of initial consonant sounds.

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

Descriptive language used in literature that appeals to the senses.

Character that does not grow or character throughout the story

A specific dictionary definition of a word

If you freeze water, what do you get?

A writer's attitude towards his or her subject is called TONE.

What is a comparison that uses like or as?

Anything that stands for or represents something else.

A central message or lesson about life in literary work is called THEME

According to the Dr. Seuss book, who stole Christmas?

A dramatic transformation of the speaker's point of view.

The time and place of the action of a literary work.

Character that undergoes a change in actions or beliefs during the course of a story.

A struggle between two opposing forces.

Group of words whose meaning as a group cannot be understood from the meanings of the individual words.

The quality that provokes laughter or amusement.

Author's or narrator’s distinctive style or manner of expression

A figure of speech that combines two opposing or contradictory ideas.

How many legs does a spider have?