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Literary devices include plot, setting, character, and point of view. Foreshadowing is when the outcome of the story is proposed by the author before it actually happens. Irony is when something happens that is unpredicted.
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Michelle Dupray English 9: William Shakespeare “Romeo
Literary devices include plot, setting, character, and point of view. Foreshadowing is when the outcome of the story is proposed by the author before it actually happens. Irony is when something happens that is unpredicted.
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Literary devices include plot, setting, character, and point of view. Foreshadowing is when the outcome of the story is proposed by the author before it actually happens. Irony is when something happens that is unpredicted.
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1. Plot – main events of a novel, play, etc. – shown by the writer in
interrelated sequences 2. Setting – place or time a play, novel, etc. is set 3. Point of view – the position the story is told in 4. Characterization – makes plots through actions of the character or words about them 5. Theme – the concept 6. Alliteration – same letter/sound at the beginning of words that are close together in a sentence 7. Allusion – made to bring something to mind without mentioning it clearly 8. Analogy – comparison between two different things 9. Antagonist – the opposing person (adversary) 10.Aside – not in the way 11.Blank Verse – a verse that does not rhyme 12.Climax – the greatest point of the story 13.Comic Relief – something humorous that relieves some of the seriousness/tension of the story 14. Conflict - disagreement 15.Couplet – two lines of a single verse 16.Diction – choice/use of words used 17.Dramatic Irony – the reader knows something the characters do not know 18.Dramatic Structure – action, place, and time 19.Epithet – adjective or phrase used to show the qualities of a person/thing 20.Figurative Language – simile or metaphor 21.Foreshadowing – future/outcome of the story is proposed by the author before it actually happens 22.Foil – character who is exactly opposite of another character 23.Imagery – words used to describe 24.Irony – something happens that is unpredicted 25.Meter – way symbols are put into patterns (rhythmical) 26.Metaphor – when an item takes places of another (in a sentence) 27.Monologue – one character talking to himself/the reader 28.Oxymoron – figure of speech – contradicts itself 29.Personification – used to show a great quality in something (generally a figure is used) 30.Protagonist - leading/major character 31.Pun – has many different meanings (all apply) 32.Rhyme Scheme – the rhyming at the end of poem lines or verses 33.Simile – comparison of one thing to something else (generally different); adds more description 34.Situational Irony – situation happens that is unexpected 35.Soliloquy – speaking thoughts aloud while alone or not minding of other people 36.Sonnet – poem with fourteen lines; any formal rhyme scheme 37.Symbol – something that stands for another thing 38.Tragedy – something disastrous happens to a main character 39.Verbal Irony – something is said that is unexpected