Review: Short Story Elements & Literary Devices

This is considered

as the author’s message to the readers.

• Point of View

• Theme

• Character

• Conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

The time and location in which the story takes place.

• character

• plot

• setting

• theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

A person or entity who takes part in the action of the story or other

literary work.

• narrator

• character

• exposition

• climax

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

These are series of events in the story which have a causal relationship with each

other.

• character

• setting

• plot

• conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

When words that appear in a sentence or a line of poetry begin with the same sound or letter

• Repetition

• Alliteration

• Consistency

• Algorithm

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

An extreme exaggeration of a real event or situation

• Hyperbole

• Overreaction

• Extremity

• Hyperaction

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

A comparison of two like things, as if one is a stand-in or a representation of, the other

• Metaphor

• Symbolism

• Simile

• Mirroring

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

The feeling that a literary work conveys to the readers (the feeling YOU get when you read something)

• Tone

• Takeaway

• Perspective

• Mood

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

When non-human objects, creatures, or other living things are given human abilities or characteristics

• Humanizing

• Personalizing

• Personification

• Impersonating

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

When something is used to represent something else

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Symbolism

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3