Writing
Literary Devices
Authors Purpose
Poetry
Rhetorical devices
100

What does RACE mean?

Restate

Answer

Cite

Explain

100

giving human qualities to an animal, thing, or idea.

What is personification?

100

What is it called when you mark highlight or put bullet points as you read a text?

What is annotation?

100

What is a group of words in poetry considered?

What is a stanza?

100

What is a technique used by a speaker/writer for the purpose of a particular reaction from the listener/reader?

What is a rhetorical device?

200

What are the points you will make?

What is Reason(s)?

200

What are exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

What is a hyperbole?

200

What is called when you use these facts to support your main idea?

What is evidence?

200

What is the repetition of similar sounds in poetry?

What is a rhyme scheme ?

200

What is a brief reference to a famous person or event?

What is a allusion?

300

What is the type of claim that is opposite to the original claim.

What is Counter Claim?

300

A direct or indirect reference to a familiar figure, place or event from history, literature, mythology or the Bible.

What is an allusion?

300

Where would you look for an authors main idea?

What is the first paragraph?

300

What are poems usually arranged in?

What is Stanzas?

300

Appealing to logic or reason?

What is logos?

400

What includes facts, statistics, expert opinions that back uo your reason?

What is evidence?

400

What are the repetition of the same sounds in poetry?

What is a consonance?

400

What is one thing that can be used to organize a text?

What is chronological order?

400

What type of poem tells a story?

What is a narrative poem?

400

What is the combination of two words of opposite meaning?

What is oxymoron?

500

What is the section of your paper where using evidence, you explain why the opposing claim isn’t as logical as yours?

What is Rebuttal?

500

A term or phrase that cannot be understood by a literal translation, but refers instead to a figurative meaning that is understood through common use.

What is a idiom?

500

What are 3 main purposes for an author creating a story?

What is to persuade ,to inform and to entertain?

500

What are two main elements of poetry?

What is Alliteration and Imagery?

500

What rhetorical device is responsible for comparing two things using “like” or “as”?

What is a simile?