Poetic Devices
Plot Devices
Figurative Language
Rhetorical Analysis
Author's Choices
100

When 2 lines rhyme back to back

What is a couplet? 

100

The beginning of the plot that introduces or exposes the characters

What is the introduction/exposition? 

100

Comparing two things without using like or as

What is a metaphor? 

100

The three rhetorical appeals

What is ethos, pathos, logos? 

100

The author's attitude

What is the tone? 

200

A group of lines in a poem

What is a stanza? 

200

When an event, character, or symbol hints at things to come

What is foreshadowing? 

200

Giving nonhuman objects or beings humanlike characteristics

What is personification? 

200

Exaggeration to make a point

What is hyperbole? 

200

The group of people a text was written for

What is the intended audience? 

300

The pattern in which a poem rhymes

What is the rhyme scheme? 

300

When the characters or narrator look at the past 

What is flashback? 
300

Asking a question, not for the answer, but for the effect 

What is a rhetorical question? 

300

Word Choice

What is diction? 
300

The reason for speaking or writing, sometimes directly stated, but often inferred

What is author's purpose? 

400

The feeling the reader gets when reading

What is the mood? 

400

When the story begins in the middle of the action

What is in medias res

400

A common expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally
Example: "It's raining cats and dogs."

What is an idiom? 

400

The grammatical order of a sentence 

What is syntax? 

400

The logical order of the text

What is the structure? 

500

Word choice, line length, and punctuation create this effect

What is rhythm? 

500

The end of the introduction when the protagonist faces the antagonist for the first time

What is the point of conflict? 

500

Two contradictory things, when paired, create an effect on the mood or tone

Example: Heavy lightness, falsely true

What is an oxymoron? 

500

a balance within one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc.

What is parallelism? 

500

The text, objects, characters, etc. have a deeper meaning besides their own

What is a symbol?

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