Literary Devices
This literary device is an obvious comparison using the words "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
This is the definition of rhetoric.
What is persuasive writing or speech?
This is the part of a plot when the conflict is directly confronted and tension is at its highest.
What is a climax?
A typical American high school essay is this many paragraphs.
What is five?
This is a word that expresses action.
What is a verb?
This type of literary device creates a picture in the mind of the reader.
What is imagery?
This rhetorical device is an appeal to passion or emotion.
What is pathos?
This is the part of a plot when background information is given.
What is exposition?
This is the name of the last paragraph of an essay.
What is the conclusion?
This is a joining word. Examples: "And", "Or", "But".
What is a conjunction?
This type of literary device uses repeated letters or sounds at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
What is alliteration?
This rhetorical device is an appeal to credibility.
What is ethos?
This is the part of a plot when tension is building.
What is rising action?
This serves as the heart of an essay or paper and indicates the main idea or message.
What is a thesis?
This is a word placed before a noun to form a phrase that modifies or describes another word in the sentence. It also indicates the relationship between the noun and the word the phrase modifies.
What is a preposition?
This literary device is a subtle comparison in which the author replaces one idea or object with another.
This rhetorical device is an appeal to logic.
What is logos?
This is the part of the plot after the tension has peaked and the conclusion is looming.
What is falling action?
This is the name of the first sentence of a body paragraph.
What is a topic sentence?
This is a word used to modify a verb or an adjective and usually answers the following questions: When? Where? How? Why? Under what conditions? To what degree?
What is an adverb?
What is foreshadowing?
This rhetorical device is an appeal to time.
What is kairos?
This is the part of the plot when the story is resolved.
What is the resolution?
This is the name of the writer of an essay's analysis or their own ideas following the introduction of a quote.
What is commentary?
This is a word expressing surprise or emotion.
What is an interjection?