Literary Devices

What is a protagonist?

• the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.
• enemy
• a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary.

opposition

• the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.
• a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary.

What is the term to describe the troubles between the protagonist and antagonist?

• Main Conflict
• Irony
• prologue

Opening to a story that establishes the context and gives background details, often some earlier story that ties into the main one, and other miscellaneous information.

• foreshadowing
• prologue
• symbol
• climax

The form or a format through which narrators tell their stories.

• opinion
• voice
• flashback
• irony

Used to signify ideas and qualities, by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense.

• irony
• characterization
• symbolism

Is used to suggest an upcoming outcome to the story.

• symbol
• foreshadowing
• voice