Literary Devices Brought to you by Harry Potter

Literary Devices Brought to you by Harry Potter!

Fiction: A type of writing in which the events are imaginary and invented by the author

Non-Fiction: a type of writing in which the events are true, really happened and understood to be facts

Plot: the events that makeup a story Conflict

Plot: Exposition setting and characters Example: “Harry Potter 3” Setting: Hogwarts Castle, United Kingdom Characters: Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger Conflict

Plot: Conflict the main problem Example: Harry Potter 3 Conflict: Sirius Black has escaped from Azkaban and appears to be after Harry Conflict

Plot: rising action details leading to the climax Example: Harry Potter 3 Rising Action: Harry sees a large black dog everywhere, the dementors are seriously affecting him, Sirius Black gets into the castle Conflict

Plot: climax the moment after which nothing is the same for the characters in the story Example: Harry Potter 3 Climax: Ron gets pulled into the Whomping Willow by a giant black dog Conflict

Plot: Falling Action details leading to the resolution Example: Harry Potter 3 Falling Action: Harry finds out Peter Pettigrew is alive and Lupin and Black plan to prove Black’s innocence Conflict

Plot: Resolution conclusion Example: Harry Potter 3 Conclusion: Although Pettigrew escapes, do does Black and Harry returns home for the summer Conflict

Characterization: characterization: the personality of the character (Its about what the character says, does and feels, not JUST what he or she looks like) Ex: “Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways. For one thing, he hated the summer holidays…For another, he really wanted to do his homework but was forced to do it in secret, in the dead of night. And he also happened to be a wizard. ” -Harry Potter and Prisoner of Azkaban, pg 1

Point of View: The perspective from which the story is written 1 st person POV: A type of POV where the narrator is telling the story and is a character in the story. Uses words like “I”, “me”, or “we” 3 rd person POV: A type of POV where the narrator is telling the story and is NOT a character in the story. Uses words like “he”, “she”, “they”

Imagery: Using language that make you think of a specific image or invokes one of your five senses Ex: “It’s this sweetshop…where they’ve got everything…Pepper Imps- they make you smoke at the mouth- and great fat Chocolateballs full of strawberry mousse and clotted cream, and really excellent sugar quills, which you can suck in class and look just like you’re thinking about what to write next. ” -Harry Potter and Prisoner of Azkaban, pg 62

Metaphor: comparing one unlike thing to another NOT using “like” or “as” Ex: “Crabbe was taller, with a pudding-bowl haircut and a very thick neck; Goyle had short bristly hair and long, gorilla-ish arms. ” -Harry Potter and Prisoner of Azkaban, pg 80

Simile: comparing one unlike thing to another using “like” or “as” Ex: “There was a hand protruding from the cloak and it was glistening, grayish, slimy looking, and scabbed, like something dead that had decayed in water…” -Harry Potter and Prisoner of Azkaban, pg 83

Mood: How the reader feels when he or she is reading a story; The situation’s atmosphere or the charcter’s feelings Ex: “An intense cold swept over them all. Harry felt his own breath catch in his chest. The cold when deeper than his skin. It was inside his chest, it was inside his very heart…” -Harry Potter and Prisoner of Azkaban, pg 83 How do I feel when I read this: Creepy, cold, scared, concerned

Tone: The author’s attitude about his or her subject Ex: “Harry was watching the painting. A fat, dapple-grey pony had just ambled onto the grass and was grazing nonchalantly. Harry was used to the subjects of Hogwarts paintings moving around and leaving their frames. . . A moment later, a short, squat knight in a suit of armor clanked into the picture after his pony. By the look of the grass satins on his metal knees, he had just fallen off. ” -Harry Potter and Prisoner of Azkaban, pg 99 How does the author feel: humorous, silly, comic

Theme: the authors message or moral of the story Fairy Tale: The boy who cried wolf Moral or theme of the story: Don’t lie about needing help because when you really need it, no one will be there!