Literature Device Review #2

A brief narrative that focuses on a particular incident or event.

• analogy
• allegory
• anecdote
• oxymoron

A short section added to the end of a book; a short poem or speech directly to the audience at the end of a play.

• epilogue
• oxymoron
• prologue
• allegory

Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)

• imagery

• allusion

• assonance

• onomatopoeia

A descriptive name used to characterize someone or something.

• epithet
• tragedy
• metaphor
• analogy

A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem.

• stanza
• setting
• tragedy
• symbol

A method of narration in which present action is interrupted so that the reader can witness past events.

• understatement

• allegory

• epilogue

• flashback

A topic of discussion or writing; a major idea broad enough to cover the entire scope of a literary work.

• theme
• symbol
• verse
• hyperbole

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A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.

• characterization
• foreshadowing
• hyperbole
• flashback

Tags

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a reference to a concept, a person, or an object that has come to be used over and over again.

• suspense

• paradox

• cacophony

• archetype

A contrast or discrepancy between what is stated and what is really meant, or between what is expected to happen and what actually does happen.

• irony
• tragedy
• paradox
• satire