Literacy Devices Fictional

Hinting at what is to come.

• antagonist

• foreshadowing

• characterization

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

A main character in the story.

• protagonist

• characterization

• plot

• antagonist

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

The background information given at the beginning

• exposition

• rising action

• resolution

• climax

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

An object, person, or place used to represent something else

• imagery

• symbolism

• theme

• mood

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The way the text makes the reader feel

• mood

• motif

• irony

• images

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

A comparison using "like" or "as"

• theme

• simile

• metaphor

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

The highest point of tension in a story is the...

• diction

• conflict

• climax

• exposition

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

"'We went whale watching" is an example of what literary device?

• foreshadowing

• alliteration

• personification

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

When the readers knows more about what’s taking place in a story than the character does, this is called...

• Situational Irony

• Verbal Irony

• Dramatic Irony

• Interesting iirony

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

The following is an example of what?

In 1895, in a small town in Kentucky, there was a schoolhouse.

• plot

• character

• setting

• set up

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5