Final Review - Literary Devices

When an author gives an inanimate object human or living characteristics. For example: the trees danced in the wind.

• personification
• alliteration
• simile
• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

An over-exaggeration. For example: I was standing in line forever.

• personification
• cliche
• metaphor
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The way the reader feels when reading a story.

• tone
• theme
• setting
• mood

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A reference to a well-known person, place, event or work (book, song or movie) that appears in another work

• allegory
• allusion
• analogy
• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

When the opposite of what you expect to happens occurs

• Foreshadowing

• Personification

• Irony

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

A character who doesn't change throughout the story is a

• static character

• round character

• flat character

• dynamic character

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

A character who changes or grows over the course of the story is a

• dynamic character

• round character

• static character

• flat character

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

In this story, the bus driver’s name is Al. The reader knows his name, and that he drives the bus every day. Al doesn’t participate in the plot other than driving the bus. Al is likely a _________________ character.

• Flat

• Round

• Protagonist

• Dynamic

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

John is a doctor working against the clock to find a cure for a disease that is threatening the human race. Despite all odds, he meets the challenge. John is the

• protagonist

• antagonist

• static character

• minor character

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

This type of character is not complex. He or she has only one or two main ideas or emotions.

• Round Character
• Flat Character

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3