Literary Elements
The sequence of events that make up a story, and how those events are presented to the reader or audience.
What is plot?
These three rhetorical devices appeal to trustworthiness, emotion, and logic.
What is Ethos, Pathos, and Logos?
Statements, facts, examples, and other evidence that clarify, explain, or prove the central idea of a piece of writing.
What are supporting ideas?
A group or system of interconnected people or things.
What is a Network?
When a verb is acting as an adjective in a sentence.
What is a participle?
The Main Idea + the authors purpose in a literary text.
What is Theme?
This rhetorical devices appeals directly to the reader or viewer.
What is Direct Address?
The Main Idea + the authors purpose in an informational text.
What is central idea?
A job or profession.
What is an Occupation?
The greek root word meaning "self"
What is "Auto"?
This part of plot is the moment of highest tension where the conflict is resolved and the story moves towards its conclusion.
What is the climax?
The rhetorical device repeats something that has already been said or written.
What is repetition?
An image or visual aid that appears in a text to support the author's message and purpose.
What is a graphic feature?
What is an option?
A grammatical structure where the subject of a sentence performs the action of the verb.
What is active voice?
The description and information provided about the characters in a story.
What is characterization?
A question that is asked to create an effect or make a point, rather than to get an answer
What is Rhetorical Questioning?
A pattern of organization that where an author poses questions and then tells readers what they ought to do.
What is Call-to-Action?
What is Commentary?
A grammatical construction that shifts the focus of a sentence from the subject to the recipient of the action
What is passive voice?
A category that describes the type of story being told by a work of literature
What is genre?
Sarah McLachlan's "In The Arms of an Angel" is often used in advertisements of to appeal to which rhetorical device?
What is Pathos?
A pattern of organization that arranges information according to a progression of time, either forward or backward.
What is Chronological?
To form a theory or conjecture about a subject without firm evidence.
What is Speculate?
The greek root word meaning "beside".
What is "Para"?