Literary Devices
The pilot has a fear of heights. What Literary device is this?
What is irony?
When two words mean similar things.
What is Synonyms?
The authors reason or intention when writing.
What is authors purpose?
An action word.
What is a verb?
The main idea or message of the story.
What is theme?
The narrator focuses on the thoughts and feelings of only one character.
What is third person limited?
Something added to the beginning of the word and changes it's meaning.
The main problem of the story.
What is conflict?
A record of events starting with the earliest and following the order in which they occurred.
What is chronological?
What is a common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally?
Hot is to cold as Old is to young. Is an example of which kind of word relationship?
What is analogies?
A particular number of syllables found in a single line of poetry.
What is meter?
The narrator is a character in the story.
What is 1st person?
What figurative language uses a poetic sound created by using several words that begin with the same consonant sounds?
I, she, and my are examples of this part of speech.
What are pronouns?
Using the passage to help you define a difficult word.
What is context clues?
A conclusion or opinion that is reached because of known facts or evidence.
What is an inference?
The narrator is not a character in the story and knows what everyone is thinking and feeling.
What is third person omniscient?