WorksheetsInformational Text Literary Elements
Total questions: 41
Worksheet time: 21mins
Summarization
The author's attitude towards a subject.
To express important details about something or someone in short, sequential, and clear form
The main idea or message of a story, stated directly or indirectly
Choosing more elevated words to establish formality within literature.
Cause & Effect
A text structure: The author explains how two or more things are alike and/or different.
A text structure: The author explains a topic, idea, place by listing characteristics and examples
A text structure: The author states a problem and list one or more possible solutions to the problem
A text structure: The author lists one or more causes or events & the resulting consequences.
What is theme?
Author's attitude toward a subject or audience.
The feeling or emotion state that the author creates within a story.
The main message or lesson, stated directly or indirectly
A figurative speech that is a reference to a person, place, thing, or event in history.
What is the conflict?
The struggle or opposition between forces or characters.
A reference to a person, place, thing, or event in history.
A figurative speech that compares two very different things.
The high point or the turning point of a story.
What is tone within literature?
The feeling or emotional state that an author creates for the reader.
An unexpected turn of events
The sound we hear in the author's words.
The author's attitude towards a subject or audience.
What is symbolism?
A reference to a place, a person, an event in history.
A figurative device of giving human qualities to inanimate objects.
the use of words or images to represent specific concepts, people, objects, or events
a comparison between two things that are otherwise unrelated without using "like" or "as."
What is the author's main purpose in the following example: Joe writes an essay explaining the health hazards of over-consumption of alcohol.
entertain
Inform
Persuade
Summarize
What is the author's purpose in the following example: An article explaining the downfall of the Aztecs.
Entertain
Inform
Persuade
What is the author's purpose in the following example? The play, Hamlet.
Entertain
Inform
Persuade
Express
A logical conclusion reached by a reader based on evidence, such as the reader's knowledge, the author, and historical context
Allusion
Inference
Irony
Theme
This text structure analyzes the similarities and differences of people, events, places, etc.
Description
Cause & Effect
Problem & Solution
Compare & Contrast
These text structures describe the characteristics, features, or examples of places, people, events.
Compare & Contrast
Cause & Effect
Description
Sequence
This text structure puts items in order, but with an eye to explaining the way something should be done using key words such as above, behind, before, finally, etc.
Description
Sequence
Cause & Effect
Compare & Contrast
This element gives readers clues or hints of what is to come.
Flashback
Symbolism
Resolution
Foreshadowing
This literary element is seen in movies, stories, and novels when the setting shifts to an earlier time.
Flashback
Symbolism
Rising Action
Foreshadowing
Which of the following two are examples of symbolism?
Edgar Allan Poe uses the raven to represent death and loss as the narrator descends into madness
A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life.” The reader knows from the very beginning that their romance will end in death, but they don’t yet know how.
Lord of the Flies: A storm represents a drastic change in the boys after they murder one of their own
The sun lazily climbed the sky.
Choose the two most significant metaphors.
The traffic was a beast today.
The torrential rain was rapid machine-gun fire echoing threats of my destruction.
The bridge stretched over the interstate.
"Life is like a box of chocolates."
A literary device that is a question posed for effect, not requiring an answer. "How long should we look the other way while our fellow human beings suffer?" (Michael Harrington, The Other America: Poverty in the United States)
ethos
rhetorical question
repetition
personification
A rhetorical appeal that persuades through the character and credibility of the author is known as?
characterize
pathos
ethos
logos
A rhetorical appeal that persuades by using logic and reasoning is known as?
pathos
ethos
parallelism
logos
Examples of informational texts include all except...
An article explaining the life cycle of a frog
valid internet articles
biographies & autobiographies
A play, "The Wizard of Oz"
The Grinch changes and develops throughout the story, making him a ______ character.
flat
dynamic
round
static
An ______is a literary device that references a person, place, thing, event, or other literary work, such as Myths & Legends, with which the reader is presumably familiar.
paradox
irony
allusion
symbolism
Which two are examples of "allusion"?
It’s like opening Pandora’s box when trying to figure out this problem.
There is nothing so massive and tiresome as this job, except maybe hiking up the tallest mountain.
He sat down at the tired, overworked desk and dozed.
"To my dog, our neighborhood park is the Garden of Eden."
The rhetorical appeal that persuades by appealing to the audience's emotions is known as?
ethos
pathos
logos
rhetorical question
An example of allusion
The car complained as the key turned the ignition.
"The light danced on the surface of the water
Sally sails seashells by the seashore.
Chocolate cake is my Achilles heel.
Hyperbole: an exaggerated figure of speech
The first rays of sunshine gently stroked my face.
Love is a fruit in season at all times and in reach of every hand. — Mother Teresa
I died of embarrassment today after falling over that chair.
Watching that new show was like watching paint dry.
the restating of information in one’s own words.
conclusion
paraphrasing
introduction
citation
A persuasive technique that uses words that have favorable meanings (fancy-sounding/scientific words) to make a product sound better than it is or an idea sound like a fact when it isn't.
Bandwagon
Glittering Generalities
Testimonial
Citing Statistics
Famous people, or someone you respect or like, claims that something is good or advertises or promotes a product or idea, even though they are not experts.
Glittering Generalities
Emotional Appeals
Bandwagon
Testimonial
Several parts of a sentence or several sentences are expressed in similar grammatical forms to show that the ideas are equal in importance. (Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me".)
parallelism
rhetorical question
alliteration
metaphor
These are matters of opinion, but they are stated as if they are facts and backed up with evidence. A statement that is a type of thesis statement in which you present the main idea of what you are writing in the form of an argument.
Introduction
Data
Claim
Warrant
Which one is a strong claim? A or B.
A. News publications should not be allowed to publish photographs of children without parental permission.
B. Next, I will write about critical-thinking games on cell phones.
.
A
B
a sentence or two that states the main idea of a writing assignment. It also helps to control the ideas presented within the paper. However, it is not merely a topic. It often reflects a claim or judgment
thesis
summarization
climax
warrant
A word’s _________ are the ideas and emotions associated with the word, as opposed to its dictionary definition. For example, Rich, loaded, privileged, wealthy, and affluent are either positively or negatively charged.
denotations
allusions
connotations
analogies
A ________ is an argument made to oppose another argument. A good argument anticipates opposing viewpoints
pathos
warrant
thesis
counterargument
A word’s ______ is its dictionary definition.
connotation
denotation
inference
inference
______ is the first stage of a typical story plot. This provides important background information and introduces the setting and the important characters.
resolution
rising action
conflict
exposition
A struggle between opposing forces. An external _____ involves a character who struggles against a force outside him- or herself, such as nature, a physical obstacle, or another character. An internal _____ is one that occurs within a character
fallacy
dialect
conflict
drama
_____ consists of words and phrases that appeal to a reader’s five senses. Writers use sensory details to help the reader imagine how things look, feel, smell, sound, and taste
imagery
allusion
simile
personification
The prefix meaning of pseudo
before
false/fake
against
across/through
