LIT DEVICE

• It is a literary device that shows a situation in which there is a contrast between expectation and reality

  irony
• This is a statement in which the speaker means something very different from what he or she is saying.

  verbal irony
• Also known as tragic irony, this is when a writer lets their reader know something that a character does not know.

  dramatic irony
• It happens when people do particular actions to get a desired outcome but end up getting the opposite one, or when characters ' goals are prevented

  situational irony
• is a literary device that ends a section of a story in a stunning event or a big dramatic question. In a cliffhanger the protagonist is left in a precarious situation, or is confronted with shocking new information, and the reader is compelled to keep reading more to find out what happens next

  Cliffhanger
• Backstory

  is a comprehensive overview of a character’s history that extends beyond the story in which the character appears. Simply put, it is whatever comes before the main story.
• Flash back

  When writing a work of fiction, an author can take the reader out of the present story and jump into an earlier time period in a character’s life. It is a scene that takes place before a story begins. Flashbacks interrupt the chronological order of the main narrative to take a reader back in time to the past events in a character’s life
• A short scene in which the action jumps ahead to the future of the narrative. It takes a narrative forward in time from its current action.

  Flashforward
• Foreshadowing

  A narrative device in which suggestions or warnings about events to come are dropped or planted. When a piece of foreshadowing shows up early in the narrative, then, it hints at or gestures toward something that is going to take place later in the plot.
• Also called as overt foreshadowing. In this type of foreshadowing, the story openly suggests an impending problem, event, or twist. Direct foreshadowing is usually accomplished through the characters’ dialogue, the narrator’s comments, a prophecy, or even a prologue.

  direct foreshadowing
• Indirect Foreshadowing

  Also called as covert foreshadowing. In this type of foreshadowing, the story hints at an outcome by leaving subtle clues throughout the story. With indirect foreshadowing, readers likely won’t realize the meaning of the clues until they witness the foreshadowed event
• Juxtaposition

  It means placing two things side by side so as to highlight their differences. Writers use it for rhetorical effect. Writers juxtapose divergent elements frequently: wealth and poverty, beauty and ugliness, or darkness and light.
• In media Res

  A Latin phrase meaning “in the midst of things. ” It’s used as a literary term to describe when a story opens with the character already in the middle of things.