12 Powerful Words
Literary Devices
Plot
Types of Writing
Poetry
100
Read between the lines, what is the hidden meaning.
What is infer?
100
The author's feelings.
What is Tone?
100
The main events in a story.
What is Plot?
100
Writing that attempts to convince the reader or listener to adopt a particular opinion or course of action.
What is Persuasive?
100
A poem that uses sensory images, figurative language, and sound devices to express deep thoughts and feelings about a subject.
What is Lyric Poem?
200
"What will happen next?"
What is Predict?
200
Making a thing, idea, or an animal do something only humans can do.
What is Personification?
200
End of the story; main conflict is resolved.
What is Resolution?
200
Writing that explains or informs.
What is Expository?
200
A poem is similar to a short story in that it has a plot, characters, and a theme.
What is Narrative Poem?
300
Judge it, tell the good and the bad.
What is Evaluate?
300
Compare or contrast two nouns to another.
What is Metaphor?
300
Beginning of the story; other obstacles and minor conflicts develop.
What is Rising Action?
300
Writing that is either fiction or non-fiction. Examples are biographies, autobiographies, poems, novels, and short stories.
What is Narrative?
300
A poem that is a Japanese, 3-line verse form. The first and third line each have five syllables. The second line has seven syllables. Images in a poem create a single, vivid picture generally of a scene from nature.
What is Haiku?
400
Tell all the ways they are different.
What is Contrast?
400
Words that sound like the objects they name or the sound those objects make.
What is Onomatopoeia?
400
Beginning of the story, introduces the characters, setting, and main conflict.
What is Exposition?
400
Writing that discusses and interprets what is of value in a book, short story, essay, article, or poem.
What is Response to Literature?
400
This is a fourteen line lyric poem with a single theme. They are usually written in iambic pentameter following one of two traditional patterns: Petrarchan or Shakespearean.
What is a Sonnet?
500
Tell the main ideas, tell the beginning, middle, and end.
What is Summarize?
500
Two or more words in a poem or prose that begin with the same letter or sound.
What is Alliteration?
500
End of the story; events immediately following the climax; resolution of smaller conflicts.
What is Falling Action?
500
Writing that uses outside research to gather information and explore subjects of interest.
What is Research Writing?
500
Words to accompany a song story in that it has a plot, characters, and a theme. However, a writer divides a narrative poem into stanzas, usually composed of rhyming lines that have a definitive rhythm, or beat.
What are Song Lyrics?