English 9: Terms and Devices
LITERARY TERMS AND DEVICES (PROSE)
Antagonist:
Aside:
Atmosphere:
Audience:
bias:
Character:
Chronological order:
Cliché:
Climax:
Comedy:
* comic relief:
Compare and contrast:
Conflict (internal / external):
descriptive writing:
Dialogue:
Drama:
Dynamic character:
Exposition:
Falling action:
Figurative language:
Flashback:
Flat character:
Foil:
Foreshadowing:
Genre:
Image:
Imagery:
Initiating Incident:
Irony:
Mood:
Narrative:
Narration:
Narrator:
Persuasion; persuasive:
Plot:
Point of view – 1st person:
Point of view – 3rd person (limited):
Point of view – 3rd person (unlimited/omniscient):
Point of View – 2nd person:
Protagonist:
Rising Action:
Round character:
Sarcasm:
Setting:
Speaker:
Static character:
Stereotype:
Suspense:
Theme:
Tone:
POETIC TERMS AND DEVICES
Alliteration:
Ballad:
Blank verse:
Figurative language:
Free verse:
Hyperbole:
Lyric:
Metaphor:
Onomatopoeia:
Oxymoron:
Personification:
Refrain:
Rhyme:
Rhyme scheme:
Rhythm:
Simile:
Stanza:
Symbol:
Symbolism: