Academic Vocabulary

literary devices

• words or phrases that the author

  uses to make their writing more

  interesting and enjoyable for readers

• a group of letters at the beginning

  of a word that changes the word’s

  meaning

• a word or group of words having a

  particular meaning or used in a

  particular way

• words or phrases that the author

  uses to make their writing more

  interesting and enjoyable for readers

feature

• a type of literature

• the reason why a character acts

  the way they do

• an important or distinctive part or

  characteristic of something

• the way that a story is organized

literal

• a word or group of words having a

  particular meaning or used in a

  particular way

• the strict or exact meaning of

  words

• to stand for

• comparing two things that are usually

  thought to be different from each

  other, but have something in common