B.E.S.T. ELA

The literary element that expresses the universal moral or lesson of a story, usually by way of the protagonist. 

• Mood

• Theme

• Tone

• Imagery

The most important, main thoughts unifying a text. 

• Central Ideas

• Annotation

• Genre

• Theme

The way an author chooses to arrange words, form sentences, and use grammar

• Syntax

• Diction

• Inductive Reasoning

• Context

Detailed words and phrases that engage a reader’s five senses.

• Alliteration

• Imagery

• Hyperbole

• Sonnet

Refers to the perspective a writer chooses to narrate a story.

• Narrator

• Point of View

• Central Idea

• Context

A group of two or more lines in a poem.

• Stanza

• Sonnet

• Rhyme Scheme

• Poetic Form

A comparison of two very different things without using “like” or “as”.

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

The voice that tells a story, which varies in reliability.

• First person

• Narrator

• Point of View

• Third person

The structure or arrangement of lines, stanzas, and sound in a poem, designed to reflect topics in the poem. 

• Tone

• Hyperbole

• Poetic Form

• Free Verse

When a poem does not follow any particular rhyme scheme or meter. 

• Sonnet

• Free Verse

• Poetic Form

• Metaphor