Literary Devices
The author's attitude or feelings toward the subject of a text.
What is tone?
A time and/or place an event takes place.
What is setting?
This type of text structure is used to show how two or more things are similar or different.
What is compare and contrast?
A central idea is what a text is MOSTLY about. Other words you might see on a state test that are the same as "central idea" are these ...
What is (any of the below are acceptable):
main idea
theme
main point
How a text is organized. For example, comparison and contrast, problem and solution, cause and effect, informational, etc.
What is "structure"?
The feeling a reader experiences through the words and phrases an author uses.
What is mood?
The struggle, obstacle, or challenge a character is facing and must overcome.
What is conflict?
This type of text structure is used to convince the reader to take the author's position or to think deeply about a topic or issue.
What is persuasive?
A sentence or statement that is part of an argument and can be supported with evidence is called a
What is claim?
This type of statement is brief and includes only the KEY details or MAIN points of a text.
What is a summary?
An object, a person, a situation, or an action in a text that represents something else. For example, the image of a heart represents LOVE.
What is symbolism?
A conversation between two or more characters in a story.
What is dialogue?
The purpose of this type of text structure is to increase the reader's knowledge about a topic or subject.
What is (any of the below are acceptable)
informative
explanatory
expository
Text details, quotations, facts, are all considered this ...
What is evidence?
What is the meaning of the word DISTINGUISH as it is used in the sentence below.
How does the author DISTINGUISH the narrator's point of view from the other characters point of view?
What is:
separate
tell the difference between
When the author hints to the reader that something is going to happen later in a story.
What is foreshadowing?
The action OR series of events that take place in a story and move the story along.
What is plot?
This type of text structure uses storytelling to communicate an idea.
What is narrative?
If you don't have this then you don't have a "valid" claim or "valid" answer.
What is :
evidence
text details
What is the meaning of CONVEY as it is used in the question below?
How does the author CONVEY the main character's feelings toward his best friend?
Simile, metaphor, and personification are three types of this literary device.
What is figurative language?
The life lesson a character learns through the events in a story.
What is theme?
In informational texts, this is the position or perspective of the author, narrator, speaker, or character.
What is point of view?
To reword a text or a section of a text while preserving or keeping the text's original meaning.
What is paraphrase?
What is another word for SHIFT?
What is change?
What is to move from one place to another?