Literary Devices

In the movie Batman Begins, the beginning of the movie shows Bruce Wayne's parents dying and him becoming Batman. This is an example of...

• Climax
• Resolution
• Exposition
• Conflict

How do author's usually show mood? 

• Through word choice (descriptions)
• Through characters
• With the title 

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The central idea or universal truth that a story examines is  ________________________.

• Conflict
• Theme
• Point of view
• Resolution

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What literary device uses an object or action that means something other than its literal meaning?

• Symbolism
• Foreshadowing
• Flashback
• Irony

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Feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage

• symbol
• tone
• mood
• motif

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Clues that suggest events that have yet to occur

• paradox
• foreshadowing
• irony
• exposition

A reference to a literary, mythological, or historical person, place, or thing

• allusion
• idiom
• exposition
• pun

Play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have sharply different meanings

• mood
• tone
• irony
• pun

Contrast between appearance and reality; when one thing is expected and the exact opposite occurs

• idiom
• tone
• pun
• irony

Deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration

• paradox
• tone
• symbol
• hyperbole