Literary Devices
A comparison without using like or as.
A comparison without using like or as. What is a metaphor?
A comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
A nonfiction text meant to convey information.
What is informational text?
Using a credible source to persuade.
What is Ethos?
A short moral story.
What is an allegory?
A word, phrase, or sound being used multiple times for a purpose.
What is repetition?
Hinting at an event to come.
What is foreshadowing?
The structure of the information.
What is sequence?
Using logic to persuade.
What is Logos?
A good word flow.
What is consonance?
When two words start or end with the same sound.
What is rhyme?
An authors choice in words.
What is diction?
A short story on the side of an article.
What is a side-bar?
Using emotions to persuade.
What is Pathos?
A stanza consisting of two verses.
What is a couplet?
A word used to create a sound. (ex: Bang!)
What is onomatopoeia?
An indirect reference to something.
What is an allusion?
A diagram that has labels on important parts.
What is a label diagram?
The argument against your opinion and your response.
What is a counter-arguement/rebuttal?
Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.
What is free-verse?
An object is given human traits or is doing a humane action.
What is personification?
Creating contrast between how things seem, and how they actually are.
What is hyperbole?
The five types of informational text.
Definition/description, problem-solution, squence/time, comparison and contrast, and cause and effect.
Quoting a person to aid your point.
What is a testimony?
The position in which the author tells the story.
Point of view