At times, students find the metalanguage of English difficult to grasp. When studying a new text such as short story, it helps to guide students through the process of locating figurative and descriptive language, while also providing evidence to assist in their success.
Below is a document that I created that segments each of types of language features that a student might find in a short story. This document can be adapted to add or remove language features, while also modelling your own examples from the text that students can analyse.
Here is a document that you can use for persuasive writing.
The English Classroom 