Literary Devices
What is a comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as"?
What is a simile?
Name the type of conflict in which a character struggles against society.
What is man vs. society?
This formatting style requires double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and a header with your last name and page number.
What is MLA format?
If the author’s intent is to teach or explain something, their purpose is this.
What is to inform?
This part of speech describes a noun or pronoun.
What is an adjective?
This literary device gives human qualities to non-human things.
What is personification?
The main character of a story is known by this term.
What is the protagonist?
In MLA citations, what appears in parentheses after a direct quote?
What are the author’s last name and the page number?
The central, unifying element of a nonfiction text is called this.
The punctuation mark used to indicate possession or a contraction.
What is an apostrophe?
An indication or hint of what is to come later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
A character that undergoes an important change over the course of the story.
What is a dynamic character?
A thesis statement is a one-sentence claim you are making about a topic or text.
What is a thesis statement?
In the Big Six Poetry method, this term refers to the person whose voice we hear in the poem.
Who is the speaker?
An idea or feeling that a word invokes.
What is connotation?
This literary device appeals to the five senses and helps create vivid descriptions in writing.
What are sensory details?
A point of view that uses a method of storytelling in which the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the story.
What is a third-person omniscient point of view?
This part of a CSA paragraph explains how your evidence supports your claim.
What is analysis?
Annotating a text involves these three steps.
What are highlighting key ideas, making notes in the margins, and underlining important information?
A group of words that can stand alone as a sentence.
What is an independent clause?
The color red in literature can symbolize these contrasting ideas.
What are love or danger?
This method of indirect characterization is remembered by the acronym STEAL.
What are speech, thoughts, effect on others, actions, and looks?
These are NOT cliches, absolutes, too specific, vague, and/or written from a first/second point of view.
What is a thematic statement?
The emotions the readers feel when reading a piece of writing.
What is mood?
A conjunction that connects two or more words, phrases, or clauses.
What is a coordinating conjunction?