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Literary Devices
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Random Thoughts
Misused and Abused
100
The type of essay you must write on STAAR.
What is persuasive?
100
And this was the reason that, long ago, In this kingdom by the sea, A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling My beautiful Annabel Lee;
What is a personification that makes it seem like the wind is the cause for his love dying?
100
What word tells you where the prompt starts
What is WRITE
100
What components belong in the introduction
What is hook and thesis?
100
The authors purpose is to...
What is persuade, inform, explain, demonstrate, cite
200
the mode of narration that an author employs to let the readers “hear” and “see” what takes place in a story, poem, or essay.
What is point of view?
200
But we loved with a love that was more than love — I and my Annabel Lee - With a love that the wingéd seraphs in Heaven Coveted her and me.
What is biblical allusion that mentions greek Gods and repetition that magnifies their love also Hyperbole that exaggerates the love they had for each other ?
200
This sentence joins two or more independent clauses with a coordinator such as for, and, or but, or a semi-colon.
What is compound sentence?
200
To be a complete sentence, you must have what 2 things?
What is a subject and a verb?
200
This text provides details or characteristics of a topic
What is description?
300
This sentence has a subject and a verb. or is just a complete thought PERIOD.
What is A SIMPLE SENTENCE
300
DfaD provides the funds a global relief organization digs the wells.
How should the italicized part be revised to correct the run-on?
A funds, a
B funds; a
C funds. So a
D funds, and so a
What is B
DfaD provides the funds; a global relief organization digs the wells.
300
the use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities, by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense.
What is Symbolism ?
300
The way an author reveals a main character.
What is STEAL and Characterization
300
When you read words like similar, alike, and unlike
What is compare and contrast?
400
This sentence has one independent clause and at least one dependent clause.
What is a complex sentence?
400
What we call clues or hints that something is going to happen.
What is foreshadowing?
400
A figure of speech that describes an object or action in a way that isn’t literally true, but helps explain an idea or make a comparison.
It equates those two things not because they actually are the same, but for the sake of comparison or symbolism
compares 2 things without using like or as
What is metaphor?
400
What does MEAL stand for?
What is main idea, evidence, explain example, link?
400
A story written by someone, in this story they learned a lesson.
What is Memoir?
500
What is call to action?
500
What inference can be made from this photo?
A The men know each other.
B The men are walking into danger.
C The men are strangers who have just met.
D The men have been hiking for several days.
What is B the men are walking into danger?
500
What does HELPS stand for?
What is historical, experience, literature, pop culture, and sports/science?
500
Words that make independent clauses "dependent"
What are Subordinating Conjunctions.
500
Words students are suppose to use in order to create coherency in their persuasive essay.
What as transition words?