Literary Terms
This term describes how a text makes the reader feel
What is mood?
Memoirs are written from this point of view.
What is first person?
This number describes the lowest possible amount of sentences to create a paragraph.
What is 5?
This term describes a conversation between characters
What is Dialogue?
This term describes the action of noting important parts of a text while reading.
What is annotating?
This term describes the process authors use to develop and represent the personalities, motives, and traits of characters in a story
What is characterization?
The narrator of a memoir is usually this person.
Who is the author?
A strong written response would explain ideas using __________
What is evidence?
This term describes the written directions telling actors how to move or speak
What are stage directions?
Making guesses about what will happen next in a passage is called this.
What is making a prediction or an inference?
What is a topic?
Unlike biographies, memoirs focus on...
A group of words that expresses a complete thought, containing both a subject and a predicate.
What is a complete sentence?
What does a fictional novel use to convey characterization that a play cannot use?
Figuring out what unfamiliar words mean using clues in the text is called this.
What is using context clues?
This term descibes the main message of a text
What is theme?
A lesson or realization learned from experiences in a memoir.
What is a theme?
You should do this before turning in any piece of writing.
What is proofreading?
A section of a play that takes place in one setting or time period before the action shifts.
What is a scene?
Using evidence from the text to support an answer is called ______ _________
What is citing evidence?
This term describes how the author feels about a subject
What is tone?
By the end of a memoir, the narrator has had _____ ________
What is personal growth?
These words help connect ideas and make a smoother paragraph/piece of writing.
What are transition words?
This term describes a division of a play that is usually made up of several scenes.
What is an act?
This is a good thing to do BEFORE reading a passage that you've have to respond to
What is read the questions first?