Literary Devices

What is author's attitude?

• What the author chooses to write about

• How an author feels about the subject

• The author's word choice

• How the author organizes the text

What is mood?

• The overall feeling the audience/reader is meant to have

• How the characters in a text feel

• What the author thinks about a subject

• How the author persuades the reader

What term means: A comparison of two things using "like" or "as"?

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Syntax

What term means: A comparison of two things without using "like" or "as"?

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Syntax

What is diction?

• A word's definition

• Connotation

• Punctuation and sentence structure

• Word choice

What is a symbol?

• Something that represents or stands for something else

• An object or idea that is repeated throughout a text

• A universal truth or idea

• An inanimate object given living characteristics

What point of view comes from the perspective of a character and uses the pronouns "I", "we", or "us"?

• First person

• Second person

• Third person

• Omniscient narration

What point of view is written in the perspective of another person and uses pronouns such as "he", "she", or "they"?

• First person

• Limited narration

• Outside narrator

• Third person

Which kind of narrator knows all of the characters' thoughts and emotions as well as all of the information in a story.

• Omniscient narrator

• Limited narrator

• All-knowing narrator

• Intelligent narrator

Which kind of narrator does not know all of the information, thoughts, or emotions?

• Omniscient narrator

• Third person narrator

• Limited narrator

• Ironic narrator