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Literary devices
100
A group of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph in prose.
What is a stanza?
100
The action of the story.
What is plot?
100
Can be proven with data, observations, and reliable sources,
What is a factual claim?
100
title, subheading, sidebar and bulleted list
What are text features?
100
The lake is a mirror reflecting the bright sunlight in the early morning.
What is a metaphor?
200
Has no rhyme scheme or stanzas
What is free verse or non traditional?
200
The most exciting or "turning point" moment in a story.
What is climax?
200
States a belief, feeling or value and cannot be proven.
What is an opinion?
200
Events are arranged in the order in which they happen. This type of organizational pattern is used in short stories, biographies, and autobiographies.
What is chronological order or sequence organizational pattern?
200
The wind wispered through the the young leaves of the pecan tree.
What is personification?
300
Tells a story of a mythic or national hero and is usually long, serious in tone and doesn't rhyme.
What is an Epic?
300
person vs. person, person vs. self, person vs. society, person vs. nature
What is conflict?
300

Text structure that involves listing steps in order.

What is sequence?

300
This pattern shows causal relationships between events, ideas, and trends. Some transition words used in this pattern are "because, since, as a result of."
What is cause and effect?
300
His head was small and flat at the top, with huge ears, and a long beakish nose, so that it looked like a weathervane perched upon his spindly neck to tell which way the wind blew.
What is a simile?
400
Because I do not hope to turn again; Because I do not hope; Because I do not hope to turn; Is an example of?
What is repetition?
400

Reveals the outcome of the conflict or story.

What is the resolution?

400

An illustration with labels that describes something or shows how it works.

What is a diagram?

400
Often includes important details such as the main characters, the setting and main events in a literary piece and main ideas and supporting details in an expositry piece.
What is a summary?
400
In 1970, a politician complained the news media were "nattering nabobs of negativism".
What is alliteration?
500

The rhythm produced by a poem's words,lines, and stanzas. Usually identified by counting the feet. 

What is meter?

500
The overall message of a story that reveals something about the human experience.
What is theme?
500

Text structure that involves describing events in order usually by dates..

What is an inference?

500
Sometimes a text only hints at the main idea instead of telling it outright. In that case, it's the reader's job to make an...
What is an inference?
500

The new iPhone cost me an arm and a leg!

What is an idiom?