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Literary Devices
Nonfiction
ELA skills
Fiction
Poetry
100
A comparison of two unlike things using like or as
What is a simile?
100
The type of nonfiction that provides information or gives an explanation.
What is expository non-fiction?
100
What the article or passage story is mostly about.
What is the main idea?
100
The problem in the story
What is conflict?
100
Instead of sentences, poems have...
What is lines?
200
When the author exaggerates
What is hyperbole?
200
The author's purpose for writing nonfiction.
What is to inform?
200
Specific information used to support the main idea
What are supporting details?
200
The person telling the story
What is the narrator?
200
A poem is usually organized in
What is stanza?
300
When the author gives an object human like characteristics.
What is personification?
300
A feature of nonfiction that gives more information about the pictures.
What are captions?
300
When you use what the text says and what you know to make a guess.
What is inference?
300
A type of story in which animals talk and often teaches a morale
What is fable?
300
When authors repeat certain words or phrases
What is repetition?
400
When a series of words have the same initial consonant
What is alliteration?
400
The type of nonfiction that has both narrative and expository.
What is hybrid nonfiction?
400
When words in sentence or passage gives a hint to a word's meaning
What are context clues?
400
When the story is told by one of the characters and contains the words I, me, and my.
What is first person?
400
When authors compare two objects NOT using like or as
What is metaphor?
500
When the author uses sound effects such as BANG, Swoosh..etc.
What is an onomatopeia?
500
When the text is organized showing the similarities and differences between two things.
What is compare and contrast?
500
When you look at the similarities and differences
What is to compare and contrast?
500
The turning point or most exciting part of the story.
What is climax?
500
The feeling of the poem
What is mood?