Rhetorical Devices

The way writing is organized, such as paragraphs, chapters, stanzas (Or organizational style such as cause-effect, chronological order, compare-contrast)

• Author's Purpose
• Text Structure
• Tone
• Mood

The moral or message readers should learn from the story  (Does the character learn something or change?  How is conflict resolved?)

• Climax
• Key Detail
• Conflict
• Theme

main character who carries the action forward; in almost every scene (hero)

• 1st person point of view
• antagonist
• protagonist
• 3rd person point of view

How the text makes the reader feel (Ex. Peaceful, eerie, humorous, sad)

• description
• mood
• analysis
• tone

A group of lines in a poem that look like a paragraph

• speaker
• stanza
• rhythm
• onomatopoeia

Words that may not literally mean what they say

• figurative language
• alliteration
• anecdote
• denotative meaning

story is told in time order (common in narrative stories or biographies)

• cause & effect
• compare & contrast
• exposition
• chronological

personality or physical characteristics that define who the character is

• text evidence
• mood
• character traits
• context clues

series of events that increase tension and move the plot toward the climax

• exposition
• rising action
• falling action
• resolution

Extreme exaggeration (Ex. My backpack weighs a ton.)

• hyperbole
• imagery
• simile
• personficiation