Literary Devices
A comparison using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
The protagonist.
Who is Gerta Lowe?
The first essential question.
How do I know if I'm on the right path?
The author of a play.
What is a playwright?
The "paragraphs" that poems are split into.
What are stanzas?
The daffodils danced in the breeze.
What is an example of personification?
The setting.
What is East Germany? (GDC)
The second essential question.
How do the actions people take today affect their future?
The list of characters and actors in a play.
What is a cast?
The person who writes a poem.
Who is a poet?
I was so hungry, I could have eaten an entire horse.
What is a hyperbole?
The main problem of the novel.
What is Gerta vs. society?
The third essential question.
What qualities help or hinder someone from staying on or straying from their path?
The parts of a script that help actors know what to do on stage.
What are stage directions?
When the lines of a poem all end in similar sounds in a pattern.
What is rhyme scheme?
A device when the author alludes to some event that might happen in the future.
What is foreshadowing?
The name of the people who guard the wall.
Who are the grenzers?
A character and their quality from one of our read alouds whose trait helped them stay on their path.
The reason for a new scene.
What is a change of setting?
A line repeated in a poem.
What is a refrain?
All smart people wear glasses. (Logical Fallacy)
What is a stereotype?
The POV this book is written in.
What is first person point of view?
A book that connects to our first essential question.
Example: What is Restart? (Explained)
An extended speech spoken by one character to himself or to the audience.
What is a monologue?
The rhythm of poetry.
What is meter?