Literary Devices
A comparison using like or as
What is a simile?
The reason an author writes
What is the author's purpose?
Uses facts and evidence.
What is an informational text?
What is exposition?
Repeating words or phrases.
What is repetition?
A comparison not using like or as
What is a metaphor?
Giving something that isn't human, human-like characteristics.
What is personification?
These tell a story that is not based on facts or evidence, but might be inspired by a true story.
What is a literary text?
In order to have a climax, this comes first.
What is rising action?
Making an educated statement about what happens next based on text evidence and what we already know.
What is an inference?
Repetition of initial consonant sounds
What is alliteration?
The place or time an author sets the story in.
What is setting?
What is poetry?
The people or animals or THINGS in a literary text.
What are characters?
A novel we read around Halloween.
What is Coraline?
Gives you a mental picture when reading
What is imagery?
How we see the story, like through a character's eyes or like a bird looking down at everything. It's how the author presents info.
What is POV?
Tells a personal story with memories and a conversational tone.
What is a memoir?
The main idea of an informational text.
What is central idea?
What is foreshadowing?
The word is the sound that it makes. Like buzz or boom.
What is onomatopoeia?
The message an author is including that can be universal or specific to a group of people.
What is theme?
What is a short story?
The overall message of a text that the author is creating.
Highlighting, making notes, underlining, and circling.
What is annotating?