Literary Devices
A comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
Identify the error: Its raining outside.
What is a missing apostrophe (It’s)?
The person who tells the audience background information at the start of a play.
Who is the Chorus?
Using clues from the text plus your prior knowledge to reach a conclusion.
What is making an inference?
The sentence that states the main argument of an essay.What is the thesis statement?
What is the thesis statement?
Giving human traits to non-human things.
What is personification?
Choose the correctly punctuated sentence:
A. I like pizza but I don’t like spaghetti.
B. I like pizza, but I don’t like spaghetti.
What is B?
The type of play that Romeo and Juliet is.What is a tragedy?
What is a tragedy?
The reason an author writes a text — to persuade, inform, or entertain.
What is the author’s purpose?
The paragraph that grabs the reader’s attention and introduces the main idea of the essay.
What is the introduction?
A central message or lesson in a story.
What is theme?
This part of speech describes a noun (for example: blue, tall, happy).
What is an adjective?
A humorous character or scene added to break tension in a tragedy.
What is comic relief?
The sequence of events in a story.
What is plot?
Combining ideas smoothly so writing flows from one idea to the next.
What are transitions?
When the audience knows something the characters do not.
What is dramatic irony?
Combine the sentences correctly:
I finished my homework. I went to bed.
What is “I finished my homework, and I went to bed”?
(or: “After I finished my homework, I went to bed.”)
A conversation between two or more characters on stage.
What is dialogue?
A struggle between opposing forces such as person vs. person or person vs. society.
What is conflict?
This tells who said a quote and where it came from.
What is a citation?
A character who contrasts with the protagonist to highlight traits.
What is a foil?
Pick the sentence that is written correctly:
A. Their going to the game tonight.
B. They’re going to the game tonight.
What is B?
The poetic meter Shakespeare uses in most of his plays.
What is iambic pentameter?
Identifying the most important idea the author wants you to understand.
What is finding the central idea?
The sentence that ends a paragraph and wraps up the main idea.
What is a concluding sentence?