intentional and deliberate use of

organizational patterns, text and graphic features,

sentence structures, devices, and language to create an

effective written work; author’s craft may vary by genre

• Author's Craft

• Author's Purpose

• End Rhyme

• Assonance

the reason an author writes about a

particular topic

• Author's Purpose

• Voice

• Author's Craft

• Word Choice

language not intended to be

taken literally but layered with meaning through the use of

imagery, metaphors, and other literary devices

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Figurative Language

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TEKS.ELA.5.10D

TEKS.ELA.5.9B

TEKS.ELA.CR.2F

TEKS.ELA.E4.7B

a comparison of two things that are essentially

different, usually using the words like or as

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Imagery

• Visualize

a subtle comparison in which the author

describes a person or thing using words that are not

meant to be taken literally

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Assonance

• Consonance

figurative language in which

non-human things or abstractions are represented as

having human qualities

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Idiom

• Personification

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TEKS.ELA.E1.5F

TEKS.ELA.E2.5F

TEKS.ELA.E3.5F

TEKS.ELA.E4.5F

the use of language to create mental images

and sensory impressions. Imagery can be used for

emotional effect and to intensify the impact on the

reader

• Imagery

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Voice

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TEKS.ELA.5.10D

TEKS.ELA.E1.6B

TEKS.ELA.E4.2B

TEKS.ELA.OI.4G

TEKS.ELA.PSW.5G

a specific convention or structure—such

as imagery, irony, or foreshadowing—that is employed by

the author to produce a given effect

• Poetic Form

• Sound Device

• Literary Device

• Theme

a distinctive poetic structure with

distinguishable characteristics based on meter, lines,

stanzas, and rhyme schemes such as a sonnet, blank

verse, ballad, haiku, epic, lyric, etc.

• Poetry

• Poetic Form

• Word Choice

• Point of View

literary works focused on the expression of

feelings and ideas through a distinctive style that is often

rhythmical and may have elements such as meter, rhyme,

and stanzas

• Poetic Form

• Poetry

• Voice

• Wod Choice