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Literary Devices
Beginners Lit Devices
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8th Grade
08/16/2014

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Literary Element 

 

 

 

Kareem Jabsheh

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 Literary Elements are the components of a literary piece: Character, setting, plot, theme, and ending/resolution

 

 

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Plot
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The plot usually refers to the sequence of events and happenings that make up a story

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Exposition
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A comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory

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Setting
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The locations or events in the story

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Protagonist
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The leading character of the story 

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Antagonist
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A person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary

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Rising Action

 

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The rising action of a story is the series of events that begin immediately after the exposition (introduction) of the story and builds up to the climax

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Climax
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The Climax is when the story is at it's most intense and important point

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Falling Action
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The Falling Action occurs right after the climax, but before the ending

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Resolution
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It's the event that resolves the conflict occuring in the story and provides a conclusion

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Person VS Person Conflict
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A conflict arising between two or more characters of the same kind. An example of this might be a fist fight between two people. Such as the Protagonist (main character) vs. the Antagonist (villain or someone who's against the protagonist)

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Person VS Society Conflict
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When the main character encounters struggle with the laws or beliefs of a group.

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Person VS Self Conflict
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When the main character encounters struggle with deciding what to do

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Person VS Nature Conflict
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When the main character struggles with the force of nature.

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First Person Point of View
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When the main character is telling the story instead of a narrator.

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Second Person Point of View
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  1. The second-person narrative is a narrative mode in which the protagonist or another main character is referred to by second-personpersonal pronouns and other kinds of addressing forms, for example the English second-person pronoun "you".
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Third Person Point of View
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This is when the narrator narrates the story

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Theme
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The theme of any literary work is the base topic or focus that acts as a foundation for the entire literary piece

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Tone
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The tone of a literary work is the perspective or attitude that the author adopts with regards to a specific character, place or development.

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Mood
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The literary device ‘mood’ refers to a definitive stance the author adopts in shaping a specific emotional perspective towards the subject of the literary work.

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Literary Device
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Literary Devices are more like the add-ons towards the story. 

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Allusion
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Referring to another meaningful idea or piece without explicitly mentioning it

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Circular Ending
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When the character returns changed by the journey

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Dramatic Irony
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When the reader knows something that the character does not know

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Extended Metaphor
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When two unrelated, dismilar objects are being compared throughout parts or the whole story

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Foreshadow
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Foreshadowing is when there is a warning or an indication of a future event

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Flashback
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A Flashback is when a character in the story reflects to the past

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Flash-Forward
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A scene that takes the narrative forward in time from the current point of the story

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Metaphor
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A comparison without using ''Like'' or ''As''

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Personification
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When the character brings an object to life

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Repetition 
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The act of repeating something that has already ben said or written

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Rhetorical Question
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A question that is used in a situation that an answer is not expected

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Similie
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A comparison using ''like'' and ''as"

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Situational Irony
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A situation in which the opposite of what was intended to happen ironically happens

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Symbolism
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The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities

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Verbal Irony
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When the speaker says or writes something but really means something else 

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