Literary Devices for Middle Grades, High School & College --> T & V:
- Tone = the writer's attitude toward his audience and subject
- Tragedy = a work of literature that results in a catastrophe for the main character
- Third person point of view = when a person outside the story narrates the story (he, she, it, they, them)
- Third person omniscient point of view = all-knowing, god-like point of view
- Third person limited point of view = narrator sees the world through only what one character is thinking and doing
- Tall tale = type of folk tale in which everything is larger than life; the hero is bigger and stronger than everyone else
- Theme = the central or dominant ideal behind the story, most important aspect that emerges (the point the author is trying to make); main idea
- Tanka = poem where the structure follows a 5-7-5-7-7 syllable pattern
- Trimeter = verse written in three-foot lines
- Tetrameter = verse written in four-foot lines
- Trochaic = one accented syllable and one unstressed syllable in a line of poetry
- Verbal irony = irony where words are used to suggest the opposite of what is meant (sarcasm)
- Verisimilitude = means "similar to the truth", the appearance of truth or reality in a work of fiction