Literary Devices

the creation of a believable personality by showing the character’s appearance, displaying the character’s actions, revealing the character’s thoughts, hearing the character speak and seeing the reactions of others to this character

• foreshadowing

• characterization

• protagonist

• dialogue

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technique in which writers employ two or more characters to be engaged in conversation with one another

• theme

• diction

• dialogue

• tone

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 the central character or hero, usually the character the audience is sympathetic towards

• characterization

• conflict

• protagonist

• antagonist

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 the villain of the story that works against the protagonist

• antagonist

• protagonist

• tone

• irony

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any struggle between opposing forces; it drives each and every story

• sensory details

• figurative language

• plot

• conflict

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the time, place and atmosphere in which the story takes place

• setting

• mood

• foreshadowing

• dialogue

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the general idea or insight about life that a writer wishes to express, the moral of the story

• mood

• tone

• theme

• point of view

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the use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in the plot

• diction

• irony

• figurative language

• foreshadowing

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element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions

• characterization

• mood

• tone

• diction

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an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience

• tone

• mood

• setting

• characterization

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

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