Literary Techniques

Words and/or phrases that appeal to the reader's senses of sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell. They bring a piece of text alive so that you can use your imagination to see, hear, feel, taste, or smell what is being described.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Imagery

A condition of an uncertain excitement felt by the reader which is brought about by anticipation and the readers become eager to know what will happen next.

• Conflict

• Foreshadowing

• Suspense

• Flashback

There is a memory recall device that occasionally brings some happenings into the narrative presents what has happened in the story.

• Flashback

• Foreshadowing

• Figure of Speech

• None of the choices

An indirect comparison of two otherwise unlike things that have some qualities in common.

Ex., My hands are ice cubes.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Tone

A comparison using "like" or "as."

Ex., My hands are like ice cubes.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Symbolism

The giving of human qualities and traits to an animal, object or idea.

Ex., The dandelions danced in the breeze.

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Cliffhanger

• Metaphor

When the author takes the reader back in time to share an important memory.

• Foreshadowing

• Suspense

• Flashback

• Hyperbole

The story ends abruptly, leaving the main character in a risky or difficult situation,

indicating a sequel or part two.

• Conflict

• Suspense

• Plot Twist

• Cliffhanger

• Provides a twist or unexpected event/development in the story.

• Personificatio n

• Plot Twist

• Figure of Speech

• Imaginative Language

• A scene or event took place before the present time in the story ,

• inserted in the chronological order of the story. 

• Foreshadowing

• Flashback

• Imagery

• Suspense