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Literary Terms

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  • Name the literary device assuming that “they’re all alike.” It’s looking at a whole group of people and assuming that they all share certain qualities.
    Stereotype
  • Name the literary device in which the central topic or idea is explored in a text.
    Theme
  • Name the literary device that authors use to keep their readers’ interest alive throughout the work.
    Suspense
  • Name the literary device in which a message is conveyed by, or a lesson learned from, a story, a poem, or an event.
    Moral
  • Name the literary term that use various devices to expose flaws, critique society, and ridicule politics. Such devices include humor, irony, and exaggeration.
    Satire
  • Name the literary device in which a character remembers an earlier event that happened before the current point of the story.
    Flashback
  • Name the literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.
    Foreshadowing
  • Name the literary device in which any image or thing that stands for something else. It could be as simple as a letter, which is a symbol for a given sound (or set of sounds).
    Symbol
  • Name the literary device in which the author has two or more characters to be engaged in conversation with one another.
    dialogue