Literacy Devices

5. A short story or joke told at the beginning of a speech to gain the audience's attention and illustrate an intended moral
6. A way of describing the stressed syllables within a line of poetry
7. The event of a dramatic or narrative plot preceding and building up to the climax
9. A brief pause in a line of poetry
10. A reference to a canonical work of literature, usually the bible, Shakespeare, or mythology

1. A novel coming-of-age, formation, growth, change
2. Poetic lines if unrhymed iambic pentameter
3. Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines or phrases
4. Type of verse that contains a variety of line lengths, is unrhymed and lacks traditional meter
8. A kind of language occurring chiefly in casual and playful speech made up typically of short-lived coinages and figures of speech that are deliberately used in place of standard terms for added raciness, humor, irreverence, or other effects