Literary Devices & Figurative Language
Author’s Purpose & Viewpoints
Elements of Literature
Text Structure & Graphs
Word Choice, Tone, & Mood
200
"The wind whispered through the trees" is an example of this device.
What is Personification?
200
The author's main reason for writing a text.
What is Author's Purpose?
200
This is the tension or problem in a story.
What is Conflict?
200
This text structure explains how two or more things are similar and different.
What is Compare and Contrast?
200
The author’s attitude toward the subject is called this.
What is Tone?
400
Imagery uses these 5 things to help create an image in your mind.
(List out all 5).
What is touch, taste, sound, sight, and smell?
400
An author writes an article warning teens about vaping. The purpose is likely this.
What is to Persuade?
400
This literary element can be diagrammed and shows the progression of the story.
What is Plot?
400
This text feature provides definitions or additional context located at the bottom of the page.
What is Footnote?
400
The overall feeling or atmosphere of a story is called this.
What is Mood?
600
The image is an example of this literary device.
What is Allusion?
600
This term describes the author’s specific position or stance on a topic or situation.
What is Viewpoint?
600
This literary element serves as a universal message from the author expressed through their text.
What is Theme?
600
A manual about how to change a tire would have this organizational structure.
What is Chronological?
600
A writer choosing the word "soar" instead of "go" is paying attention to this.
What is Word Choice?
800
In Shrek, Donkey asks Shrek if he can stay with him. Shrek replies, “Of course!” when he doesn’t actually want Donkey to stay. This is an example of this type of irony.
What is Verbal Irony or Sarcasm?
800
This is when an author connects facts and opinions through explanations that justify a belief, decision, or argument.
What is Reasoning?
800
Madame Schachter provided this literary element when she screamed about fire in the train car in Chapter 2 of Night.
What is Foreshadowing?
800
The example below is this type of text structure:
“Some countries, such as Japan, or parts of a country, like California in the United States, have a lot of earthquakes. In these places it is a good practice to build houses and other buildings so they will not collapse when there is an earthquake. This is called seismic design or ‘earthquake-proofing’.”
What is Problem and Solution?
800
If you STRUTTED across a stage, you did this:
A. Walked very carefully
B. Walked proudly
C. Walked slumped over
What is B. Walked proudly?
1000
The following sentence is an example of this type of figurative language:
“His answer to the problem was just a Band-Aid, not a solution”
What is Metaphor?
1000
Read the passage below:
“By the 1850s, the United States had officially acquired California from Mexico, and 80,000 gold prospectors had moved to the region. A few of these had the foresight to realize that there was money in grapes as well as in gold.”
The purpose of this passage is most likely to do this.
What is to Inform?
1000
This character role/archetype best describes what Ismene is to Antigone.
What is Foil?
1000
The following are examples of signal words for this type of structure:
“Although, as well as, however, either…or, similarly, as opposed to”
What is Compare and Contrast?
1000
“‘If only I had used my head and swam the crawl, this disaster could have been averted,’ Cassandra sighed to herself.”
This word best describes Cassandra's view of herself after the swim trials.
What is Critical/Disappointed/Upset?