Literary Device Part 4

Is a humorous play on words, often involving double meanings

• conflict

• figurative language

• irony

• pun

A struggle between two opposing forces.

• antagonist

• protagonist

• irony

• conflict

This type of conflict is when you wake up in the morning and are deciding on if you should get out of bed to go to school or keep sleeping.

• person vs. person

• person vs. school

• person vs. self

• person vs. parent

Involves a psychological struggle that takes place within a character, caused by their own emotions, fears, conflicting desires, or mental illnesses.

• external conflict

• internal conflict

• person vs. society

A type of conflict that places characters at odds with forces outside themselves.

• internal conflict

• external conflict

• person vs. nature

• person vs. supernatural

The main character in a story who is the hero or heroine.

• antagonist

• protagonist

• characterization

Any opposing force for the protagonist.

• protagonist

• antagonist

• conflict

The use of clues to hint that events will occur later in a plot.

• imagery

• tone

• foreshadowing

• allusion

An imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.

• parody

• pun

• personification

• verbal irony

The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.

• verbal irony

• satire

• metaphor

• dramatic irony