Literary Elements Part 1
Organizational Patterns
Poetic Devices
Literary Elements Part 2
Literary Elements Part 3
100
The author’s goal in writing a text
Purpose
100
An organizational pattern which presents a problem and then various ways to solve that problem
Problem and solution
100
The repetition of beginning consonant sounds
Alliteration
100
A person’s point of view that cannot be proven true or false by evidence
Opinion
100
A comparison which uses “like” or “as”
Simile
200
A comparison that does not use “like” or “as”
Metaphor
200
An organizational pattern which presents a main idea and then details which support that main idea
Main idea and supporting details
200
One of the main divisions of a poem
Stanza
200
When a sound, word, or phrase is repeated within a text
Repetition
200
A statement which can be proven true or false by evidence
Fact
300
The use of words to imitate the sound they describe
Onomatopoeia
300
An organizational pattern which presents information based on how things fit together in physical space
Spatial
300
The repetition of sounds at the ends of words
Rhyme
300
Anything which appeals to one or more of the five senses
Imagery
300
Hints in the story
Context Clues
400
The reader’s emotion when reading a text
Mood
400
An organizational pattern in which the information is presented in the order in which it happened
Chronological Order
400
A poem’s pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
Rhythm
400
The author’s attitude toward the text
Tone
400
Giving a non-human object human characteristics or emotions
Personification
500
The reason why a character says or does something
Motivation
500
An educated guess based on context clues
Inference
500
A poem without a regular rhyme scheme or rhythm
Free verse poem
500
The ways in which an author develops a character
Characterization
500
The main message of a text
Theme
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