Literary Devices
This is a comparison using "like" or "as."
What is a Simile
The punctuation mark used at the end of a declarative sentence.
What is a period?
This author wrote Romeo and Juliet.
Who is William Shakespeare?
In The Outsiders, this is the gang Ponyboy is a part of.
What is the Greasers?
The first sentence of an essay that grabs the reader's attention.
What is a hook?
This device gives human traits to non-human things.
What is personification?
The part of speech that describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
This American author wrote The Raven and The Tell-Tale Heart.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
The genre of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
What is historical fiction?
The main point or argument of an essay, usually found in the introduction?
What is a thesis statement?
The repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words.
What is alliteration?
Combine these two sentences using a semicolon: "I like pizza. It's delicious."
What is "I like pizza; it's delicious"?
She wrote Pride and Prejudice.
Who is Jane Austen?
This novel follows a young orphan named Pip.
What is Great Expectations?
This is the final paragraph of an essay.
What is the conclusion?
A struggle between opposing forces in a story.
What is conflict?
This verb tense is used to describe actions that will happen in the future.
What is future tense?
This 20th-century author created Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath.
Who is John Steinbeck?
The name of the dystopian world in 1984 by George Orwell.
What is Oceania?
These three elements should be included in a body paragraph
What are a topic sentence, evidence, and explanation?
The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.
What is symbolism?
Identify the error: "The dog wagged it's tail."
What is "its" should not have an apostrophe?
This author is known for writing The Great Gatsby.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
The title of the allegorical novella about farm animals rebelling against humans.
What is Animal Farm?
The name of the format required for citing sources in an ELA paper.
What is MLA format?