Literary Terms

Introduction

Literary devices are important tools in writing. Knowing these devices helps readers understand the author's message.

 

Task

You will be assigned specific terms from this quest.

You are responsible for teaching your peers the devices you have been assigned.

 

 

Genres

Sounds

Figurative Language

Voice

Drama

Poetry

Style

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Allegory

Alliteration

Allusion

Active

Audience

Ballad

Diction

Anecdote

Assonance

Analogy

Passive

Aside

Lyric

Attitude

Elegy

Consonance

Simile

Speaker

Drama

Narrative

Dialect

Epilogue

Onomatopoeia

 

Metaphor

Mood

Monologue

Epic

 

Dialogue

Eulogy

 

Conceit

Tone

Soliloquy

Blank verse

Sarcasm

Explication

 

Cliché

Nostalgia

Stage directions

Free verse

Prose

Fable

 

Exaggeration

Point of view

 

Internal rhyme

 

Farce

 

Hyperbole

Limited

 

Prosody

 

Folklore

 

Figurative language

Omniscient

 

Rhyme scheme

 

Frame story

 

Figure of speech

1st

 

Stanza

 

Legend

 

Flash forward

2nd

 

verse

 

Memoir

 

Flashback

3rd

 

 

 

Parable

 

Foreshadowing

 

 

 

 

Proverb

 

Idiom

 

 

Plot

Miscellaneous

 

 

Imagery

 

 

 

 

Satire

 

Irony: verbal, situational, dramatic

 

 

Climax

Ambiguity

Tragedy

 

 

Motif/theme

 

 

Conflict

Hypothetical question

 

 

Personification

 

 

Denouement

Moral

 

 

Repetition

 

 

Dilemma

Rhetoric

 

 

Suspense

 

 

Exposition

Semantic

 

 

Pun

 

 

Internal conflict

Slang

 

 

Juxtaposition

 

 

External conflict

 

 

 

Symbolism

 

 

Falling action

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inciting incident

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rising action

 

 

 

 

 

 

Setting

 

 

 

 

 

 

Subplot

 

 

 

 

 

 

Theme

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Resolution

 

 

 

 

 

 

Plot

 

Process

1. Use the links provided and research for definitions and examples.

https://www.litcharts.com/literary-devices-and-terms

https://literarydevices.net

2. Make a PPT/Prezi/Google Slides and upload it to Google Classroom.

You are going to teach these terms to your classmates.

3. Have a worksheet for peer practice. Upload this as well.

Evaluation

Definition

Reason writers use device

Examples of device being used

Handout with practice identifying device

Presentation

 

Conclusion

Learning these devices will bolster your understanding of the text and increase your ability to analyze it.