Graphic Organizers/ Organizational Patterns
This pattern shows how events happen in order, one after another.
What is chronological order (or sequence)?
This type of comparison uses "like" or "as" to compare two unlike things.
What is a simile?
This tells us where and when a story takes place.
What is the setting?
This is a group of lines forming one unit in a poem.
What is a stanza?
DAILY DOUBLE!
This purpose is to tell a story or entertain the reader.
What is to entertain?
This pattern shows how one event leads to another, like a chain reaction.
What is cause and effect?
In "the wind whispered," this device gives human qualities to something non-human.
What is personification?
This is a hint or clue about what might happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
DAILY DOUBLE!
This is a poem with five lines where lines 1, 2, and 5 rhyme, and lines 3 and 4 rhyme.
What is a limerick?
This purpose is to teach the reader facts or information about a topic.
What is to inform?
This organization method shows how two things are alike and how they are different.
What is compare and contrast?
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This type of figurative language uses extreme exaggeration, like "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse."
What is hyperbole?
This is the moment when the main problem in the story reaches its ending and all lose ends are tied up.
What is the resolution?
This is a two-line poem where both lines rhyme.
What is a couplet?
This purpose is to convince the reader to think or act in a certain way.
What is to persuade?
DAILY DOUBLE!
This type of chart uses overlapping circles to show what two things have in common.
What is a Venn Diagram?
This device uses repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words, like "Peter Piper picked peppers."
What is alliteration?
This is the underlying message or lesson that the author wants to teach through the story.
What is the theme?
This is a four-line stanza with a specific rhyme pattern.
What is a quatrain?
A text that reads "The war must end now! How many more lives must be lost before we take action?" has this purpose.
What is to persuade?
This organizational pattern shows an issue and the ways to fix it.
What is problem and solution?
In "buzz," "bang," and "splash," these words are spelled the way they sound.
What is onomatopoeia?
DAILY DOUBLE!
This is a character's inner struggle with their own thoughts or feelings.
What is internal conflict?
This Japanese poem has three lines with 5, 7, and 5 syllables.
What is a haiku?
A recipe found in a cookbook serves this purpose.
What is to inform?