Duplicate of Literary Devices

Creates the reader as a character in the story. Uses “you”.

The growing interest and excitement readers experience while awaiting a resolution in a story

A character or force in conflict with a main character

the author’s use of clues to hint at what might happen later in the story

Told from the perspective of one character. Uses “I” or “Me”

Indicates speech between two characters in a story.

Language which describes something in detail, using words that describe the 5 senses

A major discrepancy between what seems obvious, and the actuality.

The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage.

When a character struggles against some outside force e.g. other characters, nature, or society

Readers have access to the perspectives of several or all characters through a narrator.

When the audience knows something that a character doesn’t know.

The framework that an author chooses for their story, includes chronological and flashback.

The conclusion where the problem is solved or determined to be unsolveable.

What perspective the readers receive in the story.

Shows things that reveal the personality of the character through inference.

The writer’s or speaker’s attitude toward the subject of their story or poem.

A struggle that exists within the mind of a character who is torn between different actions.

Events which focus on introducing the conflict in a story.

Plot element that focuses on solving the problem or resolving the conflict.

The choices that an author makes in what words to use in a text.

Tells what the personality of the character is in the text without dialogue or inference.

Readers have access to the perspective of one character through a single narrator.

The introduction of characters and setting at the beginning of a story.

The use of specific objects or images to represent abstract ideas.

A direct relationship where one thing or idea substitutes for another.

The use of humor, irony, and exaggeration, to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices.

The turning point in a story when the focus shifts from the problem to the solution.

When what is expected in a story is the opposite of what happens.

The sequence of events in a story.

The truth about human life or experience that is revealed by a story.

When one thing or idea is described as being similar to another using “like” or “as”.

A recurring important idea or image.

Statements that imply a meaning that is the opposite of their actual meaning

The main character in a literary work