Style and Literary Devices

The little baby smelled sweet like honey, and had ten perfect toes and ten perfect fingers.

Two people are engaged to be married, but viewers saw the man kissing another woman.

A car with the license plate "EPICFAIL" being involved in a crash is an example of:

Deliberate, obvious exaggeration used for dramatic effect

The climate or feeling of a work as experienced by the reader.

"Like a snake, she wheedled her way into our lives and attempted to take from us our secrets."

A state of tension or uncertainty

Saying the opposite of what you really mean

The author's attitude towards the subject, characters, and events of a story

A person, place, situation, or idea that stands for something besides itself.

Don't throw Mr. Shafer under the bus.

A hint in the text of something that is yet to happen

When the narrator is also the protagonist.

"I'm so tired, I could sleep for a million years."

An informal style, used most frequently in dialog, which spells words the way that they sound

The direct comparison of two unlike things

"That dog is about as friendly as a rattlesnake."

An indirect reference to something outside the work

My heart bursts just thinking about how happy I was last weekend.

Each of his books had a different voice, a different laughter; he loved them dearly.

Break a leg!

A point of view in which the author speaks to the reader

"You can be the Bonnie to my Clyde. The Juliet to my Romeo."

A comparison of two unlike things using relational words such as "like" or "as"

"This is a good island. Nothing bad could ever happen here!" The boys heard a grumble...

Language designed to appeal to the five senses

When the opposite of what is logically expected to happen actually occurs

A writing style with informal language, mirroring the way people actually speak

The American flag is an example of:

A word/phrase that means something different than what it says literally.

Something which happens by chance

A fire station burning down is an example of:

Formal, academic writing style

Attribution of human traits to inanimate objects

A situation when the narrator is not a part of the story