Elements of Literature and Literary Devices
This literary device involves giving human characteristics to non-human objects or abstract concepts.
What is personification?
The term for the narrator's attitude toward the subject.
What is tone?
The author's reason for writing a text.
What is author's purpose?
Context clues are...
What are hints within a sentence or passage to help define a word?
A body paragraph should begin with ...
What is a topic sentence?
In literature, this term refers to the central message or insight into life revealed through a story.
What is theme?
The feeling a reader gets from a piece of literature.
What is mood?
This type of text structure shows similarities and differences.
What is compare and contrast?
Part of speech that describes actions.
What is a verb?
The four steps of the essay writing process are ...
What is prewriting, drafting, revising, and proofreading/editing?
This type of irony occurs when the audience knows something that the characters do not.
What is dramatic irony?
Author shows a character’s traits through actions and dialogue.
What is indirect characterization?
The main point an author is trying to make.
What is central (main) idea?
This punctuation mark ends a declarative sentence.
What is a period?
This type of writing tells a story.
What is narrative writing?
This figure of speech involves an exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally.
What is hyperbole?
The perspective from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
Facts, statistics, or quotes used to support a claim.
What is evidence?
The emotional or cultural meaning associated with a word.
What is connotation?
The purpose of an informative essay.
What is to explain or inform?
In a story, this is the turning point where the main character faces a conflict that determines the outcome.
What is climax?
The author's use of hints or clues about what will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
The purpose of a heading or subheading in a nonfiction text.
What is to organize information and guide the reader?
A sentence that lacks a subject or a verb.
What is a fragment?
The purpose of the conclusion in an essay.
What is to restate the thesis and summarize the main points?