Final- Literary devices Flashcards
Situation which the audience or reader knows something that the characters don’t know.
Dramatic irony
Literary device which words are used to express a contradiction between appearance and reality.
Irony
Contradiction in what the audience or reader thinks will happen, and what actually happens.
Situational irony
When the author or a character deliberately says one things in order to suggest or emphasize the opposite.
Verbal irony
a phrase that uses the words like or as to describe someone or something by comparing it with someone or something else that is similar.
Simile
a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance without using like or as.
Metaphor
An indirect reference to a person place or thing.
Allusion
Giving human characteristics to something non-living.
Personification
A character that shows qualities that are in contrast with the qualities of another character to highlight the traits of the other chracter.
Foil
A recurring structure that contrasts another device that develops or informs a works major themes.
Motif
The central topic in a story.
Theme
A story in which animals take on human characteristics.
Fable
A symbolic story in which the characters and action are representations of a deeper message or meaning.
Allegory
depicts the downfall of a noble hero or heroine, usually through some combination of hubris, fate, and the will of the gods.
Tragedy
A great man who is neither a paragon of virtue and justice nor undergoes the change to misfortune through any real badness or wickedness but because of some mistake.”
Tragic hero
