Literary Devices
A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance.
What is Allusion?
Can be described as a statement, sentence, or argument used to convince or persuade the targeted audience by employing reason or logic
What is Logos?
Any literary work that is based mainly on fact, even though it may contain fictional elements.
What is literary nonfiction?
What is capitalization?
A figure of speech that makes an implicit, implied, or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated
What is metaphor?
A quality of an experience in life, or a work of art, that stirs up emotions of pity, sympathy, and sorrow.
What is Pathos?
Defined as presenting reasons, explanations, or steps in a process.
What is expository writing?
The structure of written or spoken language
What is grammar?
A figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect.
What is Oxymoron?
To convince an audience of the author's credibility or character
What is Ethos?
Its primary purpose is to inform the reader about the natural or social world
What is non fictional informational text
The rules of the written language, such as capitalization, punctuation and spelling.
What is mechanics?
An author's use of vivid and descriptive language to add depth to their work. It appeals to human senses to deepen the reader's understanding of the work
What is Imagery?
A literary technique that writers use to present their ideas through reason and logic, in order to influence the audience.
What is persuasion?
Informational text allows students to develop sophisticated comprehension skills, build critical content knowledge and vocabulary, and apply higher-order thinking skills.
What is why informational text is important?
As students learn to write, they must consolidate these rules
What are punctuation rules?
A literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story
What is foreshadowing?
What is Rhetoric?
Subset of the larger category of nonfiction
What is Informational Text?
The correct way of putting vowels and constants together to make words
What is spelling?