Literary Terms & Devices Review

LITERARY TERMS & DEVICES REVIEW

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

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• ​Simile: Comparison of two things using "like" or "as"

• ​Hyperbole: An overly exaggerated expression

• ​Personification: Giving human qualities to a non-human thing

• ​Symbol: An image or object that stands for something else

• ​​Metaphor: Comparison of two unlike things in which one thing is said to be another thing

Multiple Choice

That clip demonstrated which literary element?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Symbolism

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Multiple Choice

That clip demonstrated which literary element?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Symbolism

• Hyperbole

• Personification

PLOT & STORYTELLING DEVICES

• ​Cliffhanger: A plot device in which the story ends or pauses at a moment of high suspense

• ​Flashback: An interruption in the present action of the plot to show events that happened at an earlier time - a jump back

• ​Foreshadowing: Clues about what will happen later in the story/novel

• ​​Red Herring: A misleading, or false, clue designed to throw the reader off

Multiple Choice

That clip demonstrated which literary element?

• Cliffhanger

• Flashback

• Foreshadowing

• Red Herring

SOUND & RHYTHM DEVICES

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• ​Onomatopoeia: The creation of words that imitate sounds

• ​Tone: The writer's attitude toward the story

• ​Repetition: Repetition of the same word

• ​Rhyme: correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry

• ​Alliteration: Repetition of the same consonant sound

Multiple Choice

That clip demonstrated which literary element?

• Onomatopoeia

• Tone

• Repetition

• Rhyme

• Alliteration

Multiple Choice

That clip demonstrated which literary element?

• Onomatopoeia

• Tone

• Repetition

• Rhyme

• Alliteration

SENSE & EMOTION DEVICES

• ​Mood: The feeling the reader gets from the reading

• ​Imagery: Pictures created with words that appeal to the five senses

• ​​Suspense: The uncertainty a reader has about what will happen next

Multiple Select

That clip demonstrated which literary element?

• Mood

• Suspense

• Imagery

SubGenres of HORROR

• ​Gothic: A genre or mode of literature and film that combines horror with emotions, psychology, and/or romance.

• ​Thriller: A genre of literature characterized and defined by the moods they elicit including intense feelings of suspense, anxiety, and surprise that an audience experiences.

• ​Macabre: A genre of literature that has death as a main theme. It dwells on the grim, gruesome components of the story and produces feelings of horror and suspense.

​Watch the following movie trailers and see if you can tell which subgenre of horror they demonstrate! 

Multiple Choice

Which subgenre of horror does the movie Gravity demonstrate?

• Gothic

• Thriller

• Macabre

Multiple Choice

Which subgenre of horror does the movie Twilight demonstrate?

• Gothic

• Thriller

• Macabre

Multiple Choice

Which subgenre of horror does the movie The Sixth Sense demonstrate?

• Gothic

• Thriller

• Macabre