Literary Devices
A repeated sound at the beginning of words, like Peter Piper picked…
Alliteration
This actress played Wednesday Addams in the Netflix show Wednesday.
Jenna Ortega
A word that means the opposite of another word.
Antonym
This giant statue in New York Harbor is a symbol of freedom.
The Statue of Liberty
This 13-colony region was the first permanent English settlement in America, founded in 1607.
Jamestown, Virginia
A phrase that means something different from its literal meaning, like break the ice.
Idiom
This actor plays Spider-Man in many recent Marvel movies and also starred in Uncharted.
Tom Holland
Giving human traits to animals or objects.
Personification
The smallest continent by land area.
Australia
These laws in the South kept Black Americans separate from White Americans after the Civil War.
Jim Crow Laws
Words that appeal to the senses like sight, sound, taste, touch, or smell.
Imagery
On Twitch, viewers often send these paid messages to support streamers.
Donations
The message or lesson the author wants readers to learn.
Theme
This country holds the record for the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth.
Death Valley, USA
He helped lead the U.S. fight for independence and is on the $100 bill.
Benjamin Franklin
Hints the author gives about something that will happen later in the story.
Foreshadowing
This wizarding sport in Harry Potter is played on flying broomsticks.
Quidditch
A word that connects words or groups of words like and, but, or.
Conjunction
This is the largest ocean on Earth, covering more than one-third of the planet.
Pacific
This war between the North and South lasted from 1861 to 1865.
A contrast between what is expected to happen and what actually happens.
irony
This global pop group from South Korea is known for their huge fan base called ARMY.
BTS
A conclusion you make using clues from the text and your own thinking.
Inference
This continent is the largest desert in the world by area, but most people think only of the Sahara when they think of deserts.
Antarctica
This famous battlefield in Pennsylvania was the turning point of the American Revolutionary War.
Gettysburg