Detect the Device
Maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s Maybelline
Alliteration
Clasp
Claps
Scalp
A group of lines in a poem
Stanza
Apprehensive
What device is this:
“The wind whispered through the trees”
Personification
She talks a mile a minute
Traits
Artist
Strait
The sequence of events in a story
Plot
Aspire
To strive for
What is the tone:
“I can’t believe I have to do this again…”
Frustrated / annoyed
all the world's a stage.
Metaphor
Escort
Sector
Corset
The struggle between opposing forces
Conflict
Cower
To crouch or shrink away in fear or shame
What is the theme:
A character learns that rushing often leads to mistakes
Think before you act / patience matters
Awfully pretty
Oxymoron
Garden
Gander
Ranged
The perspective a story is told from
Point of view
Despondent
Sad, without hope, discouraged
Identify the device:
“My thoughts are a storm I can’t escape”
Metaphor
We are going down a rabbit hole
Allusion
Writhe
Whiter
Wither
When the reader knows something the character does not
Dramatic Irony
Nuissance
a person, thing, or circumstance causing inconvenience or annoyance
The Morse Codes -> _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Here come dots