Literary Devices
This term describes a comparison between two things whithout using the words "like" or "as".
What is a metaphor?
This part of speech modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb (often ending in -ly).
What is an adverb?
In Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbord, this is the lawyer father who defends Tom Robinson.
Who is Atticus Finch?
This mode of persuasion appeals to an audience's logic, reasoning, or data.
What is logos?
This administrative artifact, often sent at 11:30 PM on a Sunday, contains vital information that could have easily been summarized in a single, three-sentence bulleted list.
What is the weekly/monthly staff newsletter?
This is when a non-human object gets human feelings, actions, or characteristics.
What is personification?
This type of clause contains a subject and a verb, but it cannot stand alone as a complete sentence.
What is a dependent (or subordinate) clause?
This tragic Shakespearean play features the famous line, "To be, or not to be, that is the qustion."
What is Hamlet?
This opening sentence or paragraph of an essay is designed to grab the reader's attention.
What is a hook?
This specific, high-stress timeframe is the only part of the school year when an administrator is guaranteed to be spotted inside a classroom for more than 45 consecutive seconds.
What is the formal observation window?
This is an intentional exaggeration used for emphasis or comic effect.
What is hyperbole?
This common punctuation mark is used to link two independent clauses that are closely related without using a coordinating conjunction.
What is a semicolon?
In George Orwell's 1984, this supreme figure watches citizens constantly via telescreens.
Who is Big Brother?
This core sentence in an argumentative essay states the writer's position or main claim.
What is a thesis statement?
This two-word phrase is the default administrative response to student behavioral issues, severe budget cuts, and malfunctioning classroom copy machines.
What is "build relationships"? (Or: What is "pivot gracefully"?)
This term describes a contrast between expectation and reality, such as situational, dramatic, or verbal.
What is irony?
This term describes a verb tense used to express action that has already finished before another action in the past (e.g., had walked).
What is the past perfect tense?
This gothic Mary Shelley novel features a scientist who creates a monster from dead body parts.
What is Frankenstein?
This term describes the emotional atmosphere or feeling that a piece of writing evokes in the reader.
What is mood?
Often found gathering dust on the principal's desk, this is the exact location where confiscated student cell phones go to live out the rest of their natural lives.
What is the administrative purgatory? (Or: What is the bottom desk drawer?)
This is the repetition of the same initial consonant sound in a sequence of neighboring words.
What is alliteration?
This grammatical error occurs when two independent clauses are joined with only a comma.
What is a comma splice?
In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, this green object sits at the end of Daisy's dock and symbolizes Gatsby's hopes and dreams.
What is the green light?
This rhetorical appeal focuses on the speaker's credibility, character, or authority.
What is ethos?
An administrator's favorite four-letter word that sounds like a medical emergency but actually just means you have to sit through a three-hour presentation on data tracking.
What is ADHD—wait, no, wait, uh, no, wait, what is PLC's? ALD's? CFA's? CSA's?