This is the reason for creating the written work. Examples include: to persuade, to entertain, and to inform.
What is author's purpose?
100
This is the author's attitude toward his or her subject, audience, or character.
What is tone?
100
An exchange of words between two or more characters.
What is dialogue?
100
This is the explanation that goes with a picture or illustration.
What is a caption?
100
This is a word that modifies a verb, an adverb, or an adjective. Example "Sarah quickly ran down the street."
What is an adverb?
200
Water represents life, rose represents love, fire represents power, the American flag represents the USA. In other words, a concrete item represents an abstract idea.
What is a symbol or symbolism?
200
A form of repetition where the writer repeats the INITIAL (first) consonant sound.
What is alliteration?
200
Whoever is reading, listening, or watching a story, text, or drama.
What is the audience?
200
This is the notation of a source used for a paper. In other words, this is how you avoid plagiarizing.
What is a citation?
200
This is a word to which affixes may be added to create a related word. (EX: Happy in "unhappy" BLISS in "blissful" )
What is a base or root word?
300
A combination of ways that an author shows readers what a person in a literary selection if like. Can be direct (Coach Bailey is proud of her team) as well as indirect (Coach Bailey beamed at her runners. She was barely able to contain her excitement).
What is characterization?
300
Language that goes beyond the dictionary meaning of words. It is imaginative and suggestive rather than literal. Examples include metaphors, similes, idioms, oxymorons, and allusions.
What is figurative language?
300
This is the arrangement of events in the order which they occur. "Time order"
What is chronological order?
300
This is a method of relating two or more objects in a piece of work.
What is compare and contrast?
300
When an ad appeals to a person's feelings. Ex. "Buy life insurance - for the people who matter in your life."
What is an appeal to emotion or an emotional argument?
What is PATHOS?
400
A central idea, message, or insight of a literary work. This is usually about life or society. This can also be a lesson the author wants you to walk away with.
What is a theme?
400
This is a statement that can be proved to be true.
What is a fact?
400
This is information that supports a generalization or claim. In other words, this is what you use to prove your argument.
What is evidence?
400
This is the use of language to appeal to the five senses.
What is imagery?
400
An appeal to logic.
What is LOGOS?
500
This is the reference to a person, place, or event from history, literature, or religion with which a reader is likely to be familiar.
What is an allusion?
500
This is reading between the lines. It is taking something that you read and putting it together with prior knowledge to make it make sense.
What is an inference?
500
This type of language has longer sentences and a greater variety of words than everyday speech. Slang, contractions, and jargon are avoided.
What is formal language?
500
This is a restatement of a written wok in one's own words that keeps the basic meaning of the original work.
What is a paraphrase?
500
This is the element that drives the story. Types include internal and external.