The following literary devices may appear on your final examination. The literary device questions will come in two formats: multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank. On the fill-in-the-blank questions, you will be given a poem or multiple poems and asked to identify the literary devices used in the poem. You will be given a word bank.
types of writing:
autobiography, biography, essay, fiction, memoir, narrative, parody, persuasion, poetry, prose, short story, tragedy
the basics:
character, plot, setting, theme, tone, point of view (first person),
more about character:
protagonist, antagonist, foil, narrator, unreliable narrator, dialogue, soliloquy, aside, apostrophe,
personification, zoomorphism
more about plot:
plot line, exposition, rising action, conflict, climax, falling action, resolution/denouement, foreshadowing
what you see does not equal what you get:
hyperbole, metaphor, extended metaphor, oxymoron, paradox, simile, understatement, irony(verbal, situational, and dramatic)
it's in the details:
imagery (visual), allusion, aphorism, alliteration, repetition, anaphora,
words, words, words:
connotation, denotation, chiasmus, pun, malapropism,
more about poetry:
caesura, couplet, enjambment, rhyme, rhyme scheme, sonnet (Shakespearean sonnet), speaker, stanza
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