Definitions: Literary Devices
How are they used (Literary Devices)
Vocabulary
Steps for Annotation
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100
The repetition of initial constanant sounds
What is alliterion?
100
Helps the reader to imagine or picture different aspects of the text
What is imagery?
100
A root that means believe
What is cred?
100
The first step whenever you encounter a text
What is title prediction?
100
This is the end result of taking prior knowledge combined with information from the text
What is inference?
200
A reference to a well-known person, place, event, work of art, etc....
What is allusion?
200
Can be understood once the reader traces the development of the main character, and the repetition of ideas
What is theme?
200
A root that means twist
What is tort or tors?
200
After you make a prediction about the title, the next is
What is genre prediction?
200
A poem that tells a story
What is a narrative poem?
300
The beginning of a fictional work that introduces the main character and the setting
What is exposition?
300
Helps the reader infer meaning and make connections to things or ideas outside of the text
What is allusion or symbol?
300
A root that means government
What is arch or archy?
300
The third step in annotating a text is
What is summarizing the blurb?
300
This literary device MUST be considered regardless of genre
What is theme?
400
A literary technique that involves contradictions
What is irony?
400
The perspective that allows the reader to get multiple intrepretations of the same event
What is third-person omniscient point of view?
400
A root that means knowledge
What is gno?
400
This is done after you underline something within the text
What is a summary?
400
The correct figurative language using the following quotation. "How do you recognize death? Does she look gray? Does she give out calling cards?"
What is personification?
500
A type of figurative language that compares two unlike things using a form of "to be"
What is metaphor?
500
The perspective that helps the reader get an objective intrepretation of events, but from only one perspective.
What is third-person limited?
500
A root that means bitter or sharp
What is acr or ac?
500
When making connections, the reader should consider ....
What is how it connects to society, morality, theme and politics?
500
The correct two examples of figurative language used in the following quotation. "The spigot sputters utters a splutter slash splash scatters splatters spurts...."
What are alliteration and onomatopoeia?
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