Literary devices
A comparison of two things using like or as
What is a simile?
What is a period?
What is dystopian?
The last sentence of an introductory paragraph
What is a claim or thesis?
What is blue?
What is a metaphor?
Punctuation that separates an independent from a dependent clause
What is a comma?
The play about jurors arguing over the fate of a teenager on trial
What is Twelve Angry Men?
The R of a CER
What is reasoning?
This state produces the most wooden toothpicks
What is Maine?
A repeated consonant sound in a text
What is alliteration?
What you do to the first letter of the name of a specific person or place
When an author shows what might come next in a story (a term)
What is foreshadowing?
When a narrator's point of view is telling a story
What is first person?
The most common month for babies to be born
What is August?
A big exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
A section of a poem - a block of text
What is a stanza?
The major turning point in a story
What is the climax?
The term used to deconstruct and pull apart ideas in a text to make meaning
The US state with the smallest population
What is Wyoming?
An overused phrase or expression
What is a cliche?
What is verb agreement?
The author of Fahrenheit 451
Who is Ray Bradbury?
A word or phrase that shows where or when something is in relation to another (example: under, around, after, of)
What is a preposition?
The world's smallest country by area
What is Vatican City?