Literary Devices Review

What is the universal message/ lesson of the story?

• Plot
• Characterization
• Theme
• Conflict

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

What is the series of events in a text?

• Plot
• Characterization
• Theme
• Conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

What is the "problem" of the story?

• Plot
• Conflict
• Central Idea
• Irony

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

The author's creation and development of a character

• Plot
• Conflict
• Theme
• Characterization

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

A problem when one character is arguing with another.

• Man vs nature (external)
• Man vs self (internal)
• Man vs man (external)
• Man vs society (external)

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

When the character struggles with a decision that he has to make himself.

• Man vs self 
• Man vs man 
• Man vs brain 
• Man vs nature

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

A direct comparison of two unlike objects (not using "like" or "as")

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Juxtaposition
• Characterization

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

The opposite of what you'd expect to happen

• Conflict
• Hyperbole
• Irony
• Character 

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

An extreme exaggeration

• Juxtaposition
• Hyperbole
• Understatement
• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

The author's attitude towards the subject expressed in an EMOTION word. Ex: Sarcastic

• Tone
• Mood
• Point of View
• Characterization

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B