20-1 Literary Device Practice - Charpentier

a reference to something biblical, historical, mythological, or literary

• antagonist

• allusion

• antecedent action

• character motivation

the person or thing working against the protagonist

• allusion

• round character

• allusion

• antagonist

any action that has happened before the timeframe of the story

• antecedent action

• allusion

• foreshadow

• symbolism

what the character wants in a story - his goal

• character motivation

• style

• voice

• characterization

characters that change from beginning to end

• static character

• flat character

• dynamic character

• characterization

where the setting and characters are introduced

• initial incident

• climax

• exposition

• rising action

characters that stay the same throughout the story

• dynamic

• static

• round

• protagonist

the way a writer expresses his ideas such as word choices, sentence length, figurative language

• style

• motivation

• voice

• epiphany

when the reader/viewer knows something that the character does not know - i.e. we know that Juliet has only taken a sleeping potion but Romeo thinks she is dead

• dramatic irony

• situational irony

• verbal irony

all the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests

• connotation

• denotation

• diction