Literary Devices
A comparison of two things using like or as (Her eyes were like captivating night skies.)
Simile
You can use this piece of punctuation to separate two independent clauses without having to use a conjunction.
Semicolons
This literary technique was used by Elie Wiesel when he broke the story's chronological order to discuss an event that happened in the future after the story's end.
Flash Forward
What genre of literature is Poe's writing considered?
Gothic
In writing, what is a claim which is made by an author?
An opinion
A comparison of two things without using like or as (ex: her eyes were captivating night skies)
Metaphor
A type of dependent clause that gives more information about the noun of the sentence. There are two types: essential and nonessential.
Relative Clauses
What is the central idea of Night? Why was it written?
To share the story of the holocaust so future generations do not forget what happened.
This gothic element occurs when the protagonist has many character flaws
Antihero
Why do we read informational texts?
To gather information about a certain subject.
When an author gives human qualities to non-human objects within a text.
Personification
A group of words that modify any noun within a sentence that begin with this type of word.
Prepositional Phrase
This many Jews were killed by the time the Holocaust had ended.
6 million
What was the theme or moral lesson of Poe's story "Masque of the Red Death"?
You cannot escape death
This term is what provides support for an argument (makes it valid)
Evidence
When a character, event, or development within a text represents something deeper and more meaningful.
Symbolism
The matching of the forms of words, phrases, or clauses within a sentence.
Parallelism
Why did Elie Wiesel say that it was "dangerous" to forget about the lives of those who were lost during the Holocaust?
It would allow the German Nazis to "win again"
Why did Edgar Allan Poe write "The Raven"?
His wife had passed away and he was extremely depressed.
What was a theme of "All Summer in a Day?"
Do not reject someone else's opinion just because they disagree with yours.
When an entire story and its plot represent something deeper and more meaningful.
Allegory
When the word that takes the place of a noun agrees in number and gender with the noun it replaced.
Pronoun Antecedent Agreement
In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Elie Wiesel says that many cannot live without what? (It's why we anticipate the future)
Hope
In "The Raven", what did the raven represent?
The depression from losing his wife
How do we find the theme of a fictional story?
Determine the conflict and resolution of a story, then make a general statement that would apply to all of life.