As I read The Lorax to the students at Mariner Middle School I asked them to think about how Suess used words to make his story rich, interesting and deep using these devices.
Flashback
Prediction
Dialogue
Themes
Descriptive words
Alliteration
Plot elements
Rising action
Climax
Resolution
Message/Moral
Assonance - "a resemblance in the sounds of words or syllables, either between their vowels (e.g. meat, bean) or between their consonants (e.g. keep, cape)". Wikipedia
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