Literary devices
Cards (31)
- Ending the story without clues what will happen next. It adds mystery to the audience of how the story ended.
- The start of the story contradicts the ending . Reader and audience knows more than the characters.
- Occurs when what was supposed to happen is the opposite of how it actually happened.
- What was said was the opposite of its exact meaning
- Gives out a clue about what will happen in the future of the story.
- Describing a scenario of what it looks like with the use of words. Painting a picture with words.
- A situation, theme, phrase or concept being used repeatedly to match the genre of the story.
- Putting two different things or ideas together to emphasize their differences.
- Use of symbols to represent the movie or story as a whole.
- Repetition of the beginning of words in a poem.
- reference a person, place, thing , or event in the real world.
- Same letters or sounds at the beginning of words in a sentence or title.
- Abstract ideas are described using characters , events , or other elements.
- Expressing, words and phrases that are used in informal, everyday speech including slang.
- terms that refer to something impolite or unpleasant.
- Narrator goes back in time for a specific scene.
- Human-like qualities to non-human elements
- Comparison between two things
- Using like or as
- Using of sounds
- Sentence structure is reversed
- two or more parallel clauses inverted and it meant different.
- Rhetorical question . No answers needed.
- Lined up perfectly
- Double negative
- two contradicting words
- Contradicting but asks people to think outside the box
- Speaking thought aloud
- Usage of part to represent a whole
- Repeats the word of phrase, expressing the same idea twice.
- Two objects that are different from each other .