Literary Devices #1

What is literature?

• a chapter book, but not a poem

• Words that rhyme

• Writings that have lasting value

What are literary devices?

• tools to help you read such as an audiobook

• specific structures that writers often use to add meaning or create more compelling stories for the reader.

What is the SETTING?

• the conflict and solution

• the amount of chapters that a book has

• the ending a story

• the time and place in which a story takes place

Which of these are parts of the SETTING?

• SEASON (Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer)

• TIME OF DAY (morning, afternoon, evening)

• TIME PERIOD (future 2050, past 1924, present day)

• LOCATION (at the park, on the bus, in Hilliard)

What is PLOT?

• the series of events that take place in a story

• the characters of a story

• the place and time in which a story occurs

the introduction; sets the stage for the story; introduces setting and characters

• falling action

• resolution

• exposition

suspense starts to build as complications arise that makes the conflict more difficult for the main character to resolve

• falling action

• resolution

• rising action

the turning point of the action, when the reader's interest is at the highest point

• resolution

• climax

• exposition

the parts of a story after the climax and before the very end

• rising action

• conflict

• falling action

when all of the loose ends of a story are tied up and the story comes to a close

• resolution

• exposition

• climax