Short Stories and Literary Devices

Irony involving facts or events are unknown to a character in a story but are known to the reader, audience, or other characters

• Dramatic irony
• Stuational irony
• idiom
• In media res

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected.

• Situational irony
• Dramatic irony
• tragic flaw
• bildungsroman

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

A piece of writing that begins in the middle of the action

• In media res
• simile
• bildungsroman
• bildungsroman

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

When one character in a story has a problem with one or more of the other characters

• Man vs. Man conflict
• Man vs. Nature
• Man vs. Self
• Man vs. Nature

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

When one character has a conflict within himself, such as morals, ethics, decisions, or even against his own characteristics.

• Man vs. Self conflict
• Man vs. Nature
• Man vs. Man
• Man vs. Man

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

When one character has a problem with a group of people, large or small, and/or has conflict with a societal force, such as in a dystopia.

• Man vs. Society conflict
• man vs. nature conflict
• allusion
• dramatic irony

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

When a character has a problem with any force of nature, including setting, weather, etc.

• Man vs. Nature conflict
• metaphor
• alliteration
• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

Objects or phenomena that represent a larger abstract idea, especially when recurring or in a pattern.

• Symbols & Motifs
• pun
• Theme
• foil character

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

A German word for "coming of age", usually a teen's transition to adulthood or sometimes a hero's quest for a specific goal.

• Bildungsroman
• allliteration
• tragic flaw
• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

The author directly states or describes a character's traits

• Direct Characterization
• metaphor
• indirect characterization
• unreliable narrator

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3