Literary Devices
This device involves giving human characteristics to non-human objects.
What is personification?
A statement that can be supported with evidence.
What is a claim?
The main idea or argument of an essay.
What is the thesis statemen?
The sequence of events in a story.
What is the plot?
A sentence that lacks a subject or a verb.
What is a sentence fragment?
A contrast between what is expected and what actually occurs.
What is irony?
An opposing viewpoint to the main argument.
What is a counterclaim?
Information that supports the main idea.
What is supporting evidence?
The main character in a story.
What is the protagonis?
Two or more independent clauses joined without proper punctuation.
What is a run-on sentence?
The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.
What is symbolism
The response to a counterclaim that defends the original argument.
What is a rebuttal?
Words or phrases that help the reader follow the writer’s thoughts.
What are transition words?
The time and place in which a story occurs.
What is the setting?
The noun that a pronoun replaces.
What is an anteceden?
A reference to a well-known person, place, event, or work art.
What is an allusion?
The rhetorical appeal that relies on credibility or character.
What is ethos?
The final paragraph that summarizes the essay’s main points.
What is the conclusion?
The struggle between opposing forces in a story.
What is conflict?
The part os speech that modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb.
What is an adverb?
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
What is alliteratio.
The rhetorical appeal that relies on logic and reason.
What is logos?
The organizational pattern that explains how things are similar or different.
What is compare and contrast?
The perspective from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
A verb form that functions as a noun.
What is a gerund?