Literary Devices in Short Stories

“What would I do? You mean seriously?”

• Irony

• Rhetorical Question

• Setting

• Plot

a literary device that is used step-by-step in literature to highlight and explain the details about a character in a story. It is in the initial stage in which the writer introduces the character with noticeable emergence.

• Imagery

• Setting

• Irony

• Characterization

Jessie ran down the stairs and flung opened up her front door only to find nobody had shoveled and said, "Getting out of here will be a piece of cake."

• Situational Irony

• Characterization

• Setting

• Verbal Irony

The room was warm and clean, the curtains drawn, the two table lamps alight-hers and the one by the empty chair opposite. On the sideboard behind her, two tall glasses, soda water, whiskey. Fresh ice cubes in the Thermos bucket.

• Narration

• Plot

• Imagery

• Setting

Mr. Timmons is moving to a town outside of Milwaukee around the time we are expected to go back to school in person.

• Characterization

• Verbal Irony

• Situational Irony

• Super Sad

The TWO key elements of Setting are

• time and peace

• plank and time

• place and time

• time and pace

This quote is an example of all the devices except:

Marta was nineteen. She looked out over the roof of the skyscraper, and seeing the city below shining in the dusk, she was overcome with dizziness. The skyscraper was silver, supreme and fortunate in that most beautiful and pure evening, as here and there the wind stirred a few fine filaments of cloud against an absolutely incredible blue background

• Imagery

• Setting

• Characterization

• Irony

Select each device that is being used:

"What you just knock it out?" Brandon said to Ava. She had been bothering him all morning with her gum chewing and the last pop of the gum was the final straw.

• Characterization

• Irony

• Rhetorical Question

• Imagery

Mary kills her husband by whacking him over the head with a leg of "blank"

Which device that we have studied is the most important when trying to engage your reader? Why?