Relier Pairs Literary TermsVersion en ligne Match up these literary devices with their definitions. par Laura Haney 1 Dramatic irony 2 Fiction 3 Dynamic character 4 Flat character 5 First person point-of-view 6 Dialect 7 Direct characterization 8 Antagonist 9 Figurative language 10 Alliteration 11 Diction 12 Dialogue 13 Exposition 14 External conflict 15 Climax 16 Flashback 17 Allusion 18 Genre 19 Falling action 20 Foreshadowing turning point in a story (in regard to conflict) the author or narrator explicitly tells you a character’s qualities narrated by a character in the story; uses “I” a reference to a well-known person, place, thing, work of art, historical event, literary work, etc. conversation between two or more characters categories of writing used to sort stories beginning of story, giving characters and setting the audience knows more than the characters a character that changes over the course of the story (personality change) a style of speaking specific to a geographical area or group of people a conflict between two people, a person and nature, a person and the supernatural, or a person and society genre where at least some (if not all) details are conceived by author use of literary devices in writing; content not meant to be taken literally author hints at what is to come an author’s choice of words part of story leading to resolution beginning multiple words with the same consonant (she sells sea shells…) character that has few traits or characteristics the action of a story is interrupted to relate something that happened earlier, then returns to the storyline person or force working against protagonist