Literary Terms and Devices
Poetic Devices/Figurative Language
Writing Strategies
Active Reading Strategies
SAT Words
100
An interruption in the action of a story, play, or work of fiction to show an episode that happened at an earlier time
What is a flashback?
100
"They...stood in the great jungle that covered Venus...it was a nest of octopi, clustering up great arms of flesh-like weed..." Identify the poetic device in this sentence from "All Summer in a Day" by Ray Bradbury.
What is a metaphor?
100
These are some examples of transition words.
What are: Although Nevertheless Accordingly Therefore Thus Since Hence In conclusion
100
When you spot examples of figurative language in a text, you must do this.
What is analyze the author's reason for including it?
100
This word means to regret something.
What is lament?
200
The narrator ("he" or "she") is an all-knowing outsider who can enter the minds of one or all the characters
What is Third Person Omniscient point of view?
200
"His thoughts fled in panic..." Identify the poetic device in this sentence from "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut.
What is personification?
200
In a Harvard Outline, this sentence is not about any part of any text, but is very vague, almost like a fortune cookie. It occurs in the introduction and conclusion.
What is the general statement about the topic?
200
This is what you should do first before reading a passage.
What is read and annotate the questions?
200
This adjective refers to a deep sadness.
What is melancholy?
300
The tone of a word, and the emotions or associations it normally arouses in people hearing, using, or reading it
What is connotation?
300
The character of Harrison Bergeron is described as seven feet tall, with limitless strength and intelligence. He uses grown men as orchestral batons, and he defies the laws of gravity while dancing. He himself is an example of this poetic device.
What is a hyperbole?
300
This is what TIGER stands for.
What is T-TTQA, I-Introduce context, G-Give quote from the text, E-Explain how the quote supports the topic, R-Relate back to the topic.
300
These are the types of questions you could ask while annotating a text?
What is: About the setting or conflict About characters' motivation About something you don't understand About the answers to the questions after the passage
300
This word can be used to ask a noisy class to quiet down.
What is quell?
400
The main problem within the story, novel, or play. It is the issue upon which the author focuses on at the beginning of the story and resolves at the end
What is conflict?
400
"They...heard the gigantic sound of the rain falling in tons and avalanches, everywhere and forever." Identify the mood of this sentence from "All Summer in a Day."
What is hopeless/guilty/forlorn/melancholy?
400
These types of pronouns should never be used in an essay unless as part of directly quoted text.
What are first and second person pronouns?
400
When reading a more challenging text, this active reading strategy should be used often.
What is summarizing?
400
This word could be used to describe a noisy class.
What is strident?
500
An author's idea about life expressed in a literary work. This may be sometimes stated directly, but more often is implied.
What is theme? 100 extra points if you can name THREE theme topics?
500
"In the huge new cemetery, some two miles distant, the old people buried their dead, and came back to a house steeped in shadow and silence." This is the purpose of the alliteration in this sentence from "The Monkey's Paw" by WW Jacobs.
What is to show the sound of the silence in their house?
500
This is the compare/contrast thesis statement formula.
What is: TITLE, a story/poem/text by AUTHOR, and TITLE, a story/poem/text by AUTHOR, both deal with the issue/theme/symbolism/conflict/mood of THEME TOPIC. In the texts, the authors suggest that _________.
500
This type of active reading is used to figure out what the author does not say directly in the text; it sometimes is a prediction or a hypothesis.
What is an inference?
500
Show off your knowledge with this word.
What is ostentatious?
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