Text structures
Figurative Language
Parts of Speech
Rhetorical Appeals
General Terminology
100

This text structure helps the reader further understand something by explaining it in a more in-depth way.

What is Description

100

A comparison using like or as

What is a similie

100

A person, place, or thing

What is a noun

100

This rhetorical appeal uses logic, statistics, and facts to get a point across

What is logos

100

This is the environment a story is told in. It includes the ambience and location.

What is setting

200

This text structure shows how and why something occurs.

What is Cause/Effect

200
When an animal, object, or nature has human-like attributes

What is Personification

200

A word that modifies a verb

What is an adverb

200

This rhetorical appeal caters to an individual's heartstrings and emotions

What is pathos

200

This is the term for a main character in a story or novel

What is protagonist
300
This text structure highlights the similarities and differences between two concepts, ideas, people, or objects.

What is Compare/Contrast

300

These are words that are pronounced like a sound

What is onomatopoeia

300
A word that is used in place of a noun, though still referring to it.

What is a pronoun

300

This rhetorical appeals focuses on ethics and credibility

What is ethos

300

This is when a statement is talking about something opposite to what is being literally expressed

What is irony

400

This text structure shows a series of steps that need to be executed in a particular order.

What is Sequence

400

When words in succession have the same consonant sounds at the start of the words

What is alliteration

400

A word that shows time, place, location, or introduces an object. This typically precedes a clause. 

What is a preposition

400

This rhetorical appeal caters to someone's sense of urgency.

What is Kairos

400

This is the type of literature that details a series of someone's experiences

What is a memoir 

500
This text structure is used when an author presents an issue and then suggests possible solutions to the reader.

What is Problem/Solution

500

A reference to well-known place, person, object, event, or outside literary work

What is Allusion

500

A word that connects nouns, clauses, and phrases. An example could be and, but, nevertheless, etc.

What is a conjection

500

This is an example of what rhetorical appeal: These basketball are recommended by Micheal Jordan

What is Ethos

500

This is the emotional response typically associated with Greek play, its a device by the writer for the audience to feel grand emotion

What is catharsis