Informational Text
The focus of a section of the text or the entire text.
What is central idea?
This figurative language device compares two apparently unlike things w/out like or as
What is a metaphor?
Appeal to credibility authority?
What is ethos?
The main character of a text
What is the protagonist?
The way a reader feels?
What is mood?
The way that an author organizes a section of the text or the whole text.
What is text structure?
This figurative language device compares two apparently unlike things using like or as
What is a simile?
What is an emotional appeal?
The person or force going against the main character
What is the antagonist?
What is the authors attitude for a subject?
What is tone?
The reasons the author has for writing a text
This figurative language device gives human qualities to a nonhuman thing
What is personification?
An appeal to logic?
Which type of characterization tells us what the character is?
What is the central topic, subject, or message within a narrative
What is theme?
When an author narrows in and makes the central idea clearer
What is refine/refinement?
This figurative language device involves over-exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
A question not meant to be answered by the reader but instead meant to make the reader focus on specific idea or claim
What is rhetorical question?
Which type of characterization causes the reader to infer based on textual evidence what the character of a person is?
What is indirect characterization
What are descriptive words using the different senses?
What is imagery?
When the evidence is related to claim.
What is relevant/relevance?
This figurative language device is when something stands for/represents something else
What is a symbol?
A commercial with stray dogs being taken to the pound is an example of which appeal?
Pathos
What is the reason why a character does something? Why do they commit an action or say what they say?
What is character's motivation?
Clues that hint at future events in the story
What is foreshadowing?
What is reasoning?
The repetition of beginning consonant sounds
What is alliteration?
A speaker citing statistics is an example of which appeal?
Do dynamic or static characters change?
What is dynamic?
The series of events in a story
What is plot?
A brief statement of the main points of a text without emotions or judgement
What is objective summary?
This literary device is focused on the specific word choices that an author uses to convey tone.
What is diction?
When the author states a word or phrase multiple times to draw attention to an idea or claim
What is repetition?
Do round or flat characters only have a few traits?
What is flat characters?
Name the parts of plot in order
What is exposition, inciting incident, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution?