Poetry
This is a pair of poem lines that often rhyme.
What is a couplet?
This appeal uses logic and reasons.
What is logos?
This structure presents events in the order they happen.
What is chronological order?
his title names a section of text.
What is a heading?
To do this is to study something closely.
What is analyze?
This is a group of three poem lines.
What is a tercet?
This is the main idea an argument tries to prove.
This is the main idea an argument tries to prove.
This structure names a problem and then gives a way to fix it.
What is problem/solution?
This brief text explains or names a picture or graphic.
What is a caption?
To do this is to find, recognize, or point out something.
What is identify?
This is the pattern of rhyming words at the ends of poem lines.
What is a rhyme scheme?
These facts or details help show that a claim is true.
What is evidence?
This structure explains why something happened and what happened because of it.
What is cause and effect?
This alphabetized list explains important terms, often near a book’s end.
What is a glossary?
To do this is to look at how things are similar.
What is compare?
This 14-line poem form has a specific rhyme scheme and structure.
What is a sonnet?
This kind of reasoning makes a broad conclusion from specific observations.
What is inductive reasoning?
This structure explains how two or more things are alike or different.
What is compare-contrast?
This section near the end of a book gives extra information.
What is an appendix?
To do this is to look at how things are different.
What is contrast?
This 19-line poetic form uses two refrains and two rhyme sounds.
What is a villanelle?
This appeal builds trust by showing a speaker’s credibility.
What is ethos?
his structure gives details about a subject’s features, such as its size, color, or parts.
What is description?
This note at the bottom of a page gives extra information.
What is a footnote?
This is the most important point an author makes about a topic.
What is the central idea?