Literary Devices
This literary device compares two unlike things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
This term refers to the main problem in a story.
What is the conflict?
This literary form is typically written in sentences and paragraphs and tends to focus on clear, direct language.
What is prose?
This genre has evidence of advanced technology either domestic or alien.
What is Science Fiction?
The act of taking someone else's ideas, words, or work and presenting it as your own without giving credit.
What is plagiarism?
This device is used when a writer gives human traits to non-human objects or abstract concepts.
What is personification?
The turning point in a narrative, where the plot begins to move toward resolution, is known as this.
What is the climax?
A form of writing that uses meter, rhyme, and line breaks to convey deeper meanings and emotions.
What is poetry?
This genre portrays city life in a hyperrealistic manner: profanity, violence, drug use, gang activity and explicit sexual situations are common.
What is Urban Fiction?
Before reading the short story, A Fable, about the possibility of falling in love at first sight on the subway, we made a list of?
What is places you meet people?
A reference to another work of literature, person, or event is known as this.
What is allusion?
The events that lead up to the climax are known as this part of the plot.
What is rising action?
Unlike prose, this type of writing often relies on line breaks, stanzas, and rhythm to organize its content.
What is poetry?
This genre has a sense of dread, unease, anxiety, or foreboding.
What is Horror?
This word starts with the letter "P" and can cause stress in your life and make you depressed if you continually put off tasks indefinitely.
What is procrastination?
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words in a sentence is called this.
What is alliteration?
The final part of the story where the conflict is resolved and the story concludes.
What is the resolution?
This type of writing typically focuses on storytelling or description without a structured verse pattern.
What is prose?
In this genre the main plot centers around two individuals falling in love and struggling to make the relationship work.
What is Romance?
This is the most common "Do Now" we have done in this class.
What is word of the day, week, weekend?
This is the term for a word or phrase that imitates the natural sounds associated with it.
What is onomatopoeia?
This part of the plot provides background information and sets up the setting and characters.
What is the exposition?
The word slam can be used in baseball to refer to a grand slam and can also be used to describe a literary competition.
What is a poetry slam?
This genre has magic, secondary worlds, mythical creatures, quests, and great battles between good and evil.
What is Fantasy?
Most people will be saying this to each other at the end of the school day on Wednesday, November 27th.
What is have a nice holiday/weekend/Happy Thanksgiving?