Literary Devices
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
Alliteration
How do you spell the main character's name?
Corinne
Who is our audience when we are writing?
A random person off the street
having or showing a strong or unreasoning desire for revenge.
vindictive
be a warning or indication of (a future event).
Who is the protagonist?
Corinne
Should our writing generally be formal or informal?
formal
kill, destroy, or remove a large proportion of.
decimate
visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.
Imagery
Who is the antagonist?
The Jumbie
What do we need to capitalize?
Books and Movie Titles, Proper nouns, I, The first letter in a sentence
the circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood.
context
the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
Personification
Why did the Jumbie try to drown the children?
To get help from the witch
What is a proper noun?
a noun that designates a particular being or thing, does not take a limiting modifier, and is usually capitalized in English.
an abstract idea.
concept
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
Metaphor
Why did the witch help the Jumbie?
Balance
What is a topic sentence?
a sentence that introduces a paragraph by presenting the one topic that will be the focus of that paragrap
exclude from a society or group.
ostrasize