Literary Devices 2022

Juxtaposition is...

• The repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of a word

• Comparing two things using ‘like’ or ‘as’

• Comparing two things saying one is another

• Comparison of two things that are not alike

A Metaphor is...

• Contrast between how things seem and how they really are

• When the author hints at events yet to happen in a story

• Using casual and informal language

• Comparing two things saying one is another

Motif...

• Highly descriptive language

• Recurs throughout the story and helps develop theme

• Overall mood and message

• Words that sound like the word their meaning

Personification is...

• Giving a non-human thing human characteristics

• The same thing again

• The repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of a word

• Highly descriptive language

Symbolism is...

• Conversation between two or more people

• Using symbols to represent concepts or idea

• Exaggeration to prove a point

• Contrast between how things seem and how they really are

Tone is...

• Overall mood and message

• The same thing again

• Comparing two things saying one is another

• Previous events split up the present happenings

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

• characterization

• conflict

• protagonist

• antagonist

 the villain of the story that works against the protagonist

• antagonist

• protagonist

• tone

• irony

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

• sensory details

• figurative language

• plot

• conflict

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

• setting

• mood

• foreshadowing

• dialogue