Literary Devices
This is the sequence of events in a story or play.
What is plot?
What word means to briefly share the main points of something?
Summarize
This word means "put all together"
What is synthesize?
Why is a "hook" in the introduction important?
It gets the reader's attention and evokes their interest.
These are words that are charged with emotion (whether positive or negative) can reveal an author’s opinion about his/her topic.
What is loaded language?
This type of conflict is when a character struggles internally.
What is character vs. self?
A _______ is a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two non-similar things without using "like" or"as."
What is a metaphor?
Name three coordinating conjunctions.
For And Nor But Or Yet So
This is all the events between the story's exposition and the climax.
What is rising action?
Which word means to communicate an idea?
define, explain, or convey?
What is convey?
This is the number of paragraphs you should write for a research simulation task essay.
What is five?
This is a perfect society in which everything works and everyone is happy – or at least is supposed to be.
What is a utopia?
This is the author's attitude about a topic.
What is tone?
____________________ can be direct or indirect, and it can help the reader analyze the many aspects of a character in a story through what he/she says, does, and thinks.
Characterization
"Her eyes were like glass, transparent and sad" is an example of a _____________.
What is a simile?
What kind of conjunction is "unless?"
subordinating conjunction
_____refers to the emotional response that the writer wishes to evoke in the reader through a story.
What is mood?
Which word means "to examine something in detail in order to understand it"?
infer, analyze, or convey?
Analyze
What is the most important sentence in a literary essay or research simulation task essay?
The thesis.
This is the central, deeper meaning or larger message of a text.
What is theme?
This can be favoritism for something or a slant an author shows about a topic.
What is bias?
This character type is typically found in fiction and usually saves the day.
What is the hero archetype?
_______are an expression that does not mean what it literally says. Example: It is raining cats and dogs outside!
What is an idiom?
What type of sentence is listed below?
Because she was intelligent.
(not a sentence)
It's a fragment!
This kind of conflict is when the leading character struggles against ideas, practices, or customs of other people.
What is character vs. society?
Answers will vary.
What are transition words?
What is the highest point of tension in a story?
Uses a popular figure such as a celebrity to support a product, service or cause
What is endorsement?
This is where the story takes place.
What is a setting?
________is the use of vivid descriptive language to create pictures, or images, in the reader's mind about sound.
What is auditory imagery?
Which words need capitalization in the following title?
the cask of amontillado
The Cask of Amontillado
Refers to when an object, color, person or place, is used to represent an abstract idea or concept.
What is symbolism?
What question should you ask in order to help you strategize when answering a question.
What "isn't" the answer?
(Process of elimination)
What are the parts/the architecture of a body paragrah?
---restate and answer
--cite evidence/include a quote
--Justify and explain evidence
What is a grouping of lines in a poem called?
What is a stanza?
______________ is a belief or a judgment about something.
What is an opinion?
What is one strategy to help you look for a theme?
(answers will vary)
"The grey clouds cried tears of rain upon us" is an example of _______________.
What is personification?
Punctuate the sentence below:
If everything’s the same, then there aren’t any choices I want to wake up in the morning and decide things said Jonas
“If everything’s the same, then there aren’t any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!” said Jonas.
__________ occurs when the outcome of a situation is significantly different from what is expected.
What is situational irony?
Name a way to introduce text evidence.
This is clear...
This is evident...
The author demonstrates...
(Answers will vary)
What strategy should you use to determine central ideas and key details if you are reading a challenging/scientific article?
Notice words that repeat and jot a sentence.
This is known as the perspective from which the story is told.
What is point of view.
This persuasive technique positions the writer or speaker as a person of good sense, good moral character and good intentions.
What is appeal to ethics?
_________ are polite, mild phrases which substitute unpleasant ways of saying something sad or uncomfortable.
Euphemism
“There were strange, rare odors abroad—a tangle of the sea smell and of weeds and damp, new-plowed earth, mingled with the heavy perfume of a field of white blossoms somewhere near.”
This is an example of what kind of imagery?
What is olfactory imagery?
What punctuation mark separates an independent and dependent clause in a complex sentence?
Since it was snowing hard the roads were closed.
a comma
_________ is a recurring important idea, structure or image, or pattern.
What is motif?
What does "exemplify" mean?
To show an example
True or false: you should make a paper airplane with your scrap paper.
FALSE. FALSE. FALSE.
Use it!!
What is the "narrator" of a poem called?
Who is the "speaker?"
A _______occurs when the author only presents facts supporting one side of an argument.
What is a one-sided argument?
A ________ is when a story or plot line ends suddenly or a large plot twist occurs and is left unresolved. It can create suspense.
What is a cliffhanger?
_______is an exaggeration or overstatement. Example: I have a million things to do today!
What is hyberbole?
The Giver