Literary devices
The author uses this literary device to tell the reader about the characters
What is characterization?
These are the details in the text that support the main idea.
What are supporting details?
The writing strategy a writer should use when giving text evidence.
What is R.A.C.E.?
The type of figurative language uses the words "like" or "as" to compare two things.
What is a simile?
What are the question words who, what, when, where, why and how?
The author uses what the character says, thinks and does, to tell us more about the character.
What is indirect characterization?
This is where (in a paragraph) the writer should write a sentence stating the main topic.
What is the first sentence?
This is where the reader should look to find evidence to support his or her answer about a text.
What is the text or story?
This figurative language is used to compare to things NOT using the words "like" or "as".
What is a metaphor?
The meaning of the first S in the SWBST summary strategy.
What is "Someone"?
The author uses this device to paint a picture in the mind of the reader by using descriptive language.
What is imagery?
This is where the reader puts the thesis statement in an essay.
What is at the end of the introduction paragraph?
This is the letter and meaning of that letter in the RACE strategy where you quote or paraphrase the text to support your answer.
What is the "C - Citing Evidence" part of RACE?
This type of figurative language is used when someone wants to overexaggerate.
What is hyperbole?
Where you put the conflict in the SWBST summary strategy.
This device is described as "when the author/narrator moves to a scene in a movie, novel, etc. that is set in a time earlier than the main story."
What is flashback?
This is the type of text structure you use when writing the steps of a process.
This is the part of the RACE strategy where you explain how the evidence you cited from the text supports your answer.
What is the "E - Explain your reasoning" part of the RACE strategy?
This riddle shows an example of this type of figurative language.
Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore.
What is alliteration?
Elsa is this question of the WH- question strategy.
What is the "who is the main character"?
This device is when quotation marks are used to signify that characters are speaking in the story.
What is dialogue?
This is the text structure you should use when explaining to your reader how to solve a problem.
What is problem and solution text structure?
This is an example of this.
How can a reader be sure he or she found the correct answer?
A reader can be sure he or she found the correct answer by ...
What is restating the question?
This sentence shows an example of this type of figurative language.
"Great view," Jimmy said as he looked out the window that gazed directly out onto a crumbling concrete wall.
What is irony?
This summary is an example of how this summary strategy can be used.
Nemo wanted to feel freedom from his dad's rules, but he was stolen by scuba divers. So, Nemo's dad went to find Nemo. Then, his dad met Dory while trying to find Nemo and they were able to eventually find Nemo.