Literary Elements
The time and place in which a story takes place.
What is setting?
This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
A type of poem doesn't have a defined form and usually doesn't have any rhyming
What is free verse?
What text feature gives the definitions of important vocabulary words?
A. Captions
B. Index
C. Glossary
D. None of the above
What is a Glossary?
This is an appeal to the audience's sympathies and emotions.
What is Pathos?
A poem that has 19 lines and rhyme scheme. It also has two lines that repeat throughout the poem.
What is a Villanelle?
A person, animal, or inanimate object that drives the story forward.
What is the main character?
This type of figurative language is a when the word imitates the sound.
What is onomatopoeia?
Repetition of sounds at the ends of words
What is End Rhyme?
This feature explains what the illustration/photograph is.
A. Glossary
B. Index
C. Table of contents
D. Caption
What is a Caption?
Appealing to an author's character.
What is ethos?
I use these as hints in the text surrounding an unfamiliar word or phrase that point to its meaning. They could be definitions, synonyms, antonyms, examples, or inferences.
What are Context Clues?
Narrative of events that occur in a story.
What is the plot?
This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.
What is personification?
A grouping of lines separated from other lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
The point that the author wants you to remember is called?
What is central idea.?
Author's who use ethos are appealing to their audience's sense of _______.
What is trust/credibility?
the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
What is alliteration?
The atmosphere or emotions a piece of writing or text gives the reader.
What is the mood?
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
A pattern of rhymes developed throughout a poem
What is rhyme scheme?
Restating the text in your own words.
What is a summarizing?
What appeal uses logic, facts, data, research, or statistics
What is Logos?
Begins with a GENERAL premise or truth, then moves to a SPECIFIC conclusion based on known facts.
What is Deductive Reasoning?
What you have learned from the story, an underlying message, the big idea, moral, or lesson.
What is the theme?
This type of figurative language has the same beginning sound in at least 2 words
What is an alliteration?
Words and phrases that appeal to the reader's five senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste
What is imagery?
Which of the following is NOT the purpose of informational text?
a. to give facts
b. to teach people something
c. to provide entertainment
d. to inform in a structured way
What is to provide entertainment?
"There is a child out there seeking shelter, food, and love. You can be that child's hero by providing for their needs for just 38 cents a day."
What is an example of pathos?
What are some clue words to look for for first person point of view?
What is I, me, my, mine, ours, we, us?
The author's or speaker's attitude toward the topic, subject, or characters.
What is the tone?
Name the figurative language: I have a million things to do.
What is hyperbole?
When two or more words rhyme on the same line.
What is an internal rhyme?
Which of the following are not informational text?
a. encyclopedia entries
b. research reports
c. newspaper articles
d. a fiction book
What is a fiction book?
“I’ve studied the human heart for a lifetime and there’s something you should know, high cholesterol can lead to heart desease. When diet and exercise aren’t enough, adding Lipitor lowers bad cholesterol 39-60%.”- Dr. Robert Jarvik, inventor of the artificial heart
What is an example of ethos?
A secondary meaning, other than the dictionary definition of a word. Usually formulated as a series of qualities, contexts, and emotional responses commonly associated with it.
What is connotation?
The reason the author wrote the book; either to persuade, inform, or entertain.
What is the author's purpose?
Name the figurative language device: "Chocolate is my Achilles' heel"
What is allusion?
Repeated vowel sounds are known as what?
What is assonance?
Read the passage and identify how the information is being organized.
Ice-cream is a delicious frozen treat that comes in a many different colors and flavors. Two of my favorite flavors are strawberry and chocolate. Though both of these flavors are delicious, strawberry may contain pieces of fruit while chocolate usually will not. Even though more chocolate ice-cream is sold across the country annually than strawberry, each flavor tastes great inside of a milk shake.
a. cause and effect
b. compare and contrast
c. chronological
d. descriptive
What is compare and contrast?
A chart showing the percentage of students passing the FAST PM 3 is an example of what appeal.
What is logos?
What is Inductive Reasoning?
The point of view in which the narrator is telling the story through their own perspective.
What is First Person Point of View?
Words and phrases with meanings beyond their "literal" defintion.
What is figurative language?
A poem that has 14 lines, a fixed rhyme scheme, and typically has a shift (change).
What is a Sonnet?
Read the informational text below.
Wild chimpanzees are rapidly disappearing. Some people are trying to solve this problem. Otherwise, chimpanzees may one day exist only in zoos. People are trying to save the rain forests and woodlands where the chimps live from being cut down. It will take many people working together to solve this problem.
Which organizational pattern is being used?
a. Description
b. Compare & contrast
c. Problem & solution
d. Sequential
What is Problem & solution?
The qualities of an argument that make it truly persuasive
What is Rhetorical appeals?
Errors found in the reasoning of an argument.
What are Logical Fallacies?