Vocabulary
What is the emotional atmosphere of a piece of writing, created through diction, figurative language, and other choices?
Mood
What is the order or pattern a writer uses to organize information?
Text Structure
What is the definition of figurative language?
Expressions used for descriptive or rhetorical effect that are not literally true but that express some truth beyond the literal level.
What is a statement in which you give your position on an argument?
Claim
What are the necessary components of a work of literature?
Literary elements
What is the central idea or message of a work of literature, often expressed as a general statement about life?
Theme
What is a text structure that presents facts, events, ordetails in the order in which they occurred in time?
Chronological
Which type of figurative language is the following definition:
A comparison of two dissimilar things.
Metaphor
What is an idea that is contrary to the author’s position or point of view?
Counterclaim
Which of the following is not a literary element:
Diction
Style
Theme
Characters
Theme
What is the author’s, speaker’s, or narrator’s attitude toward a subject, evident through diction and other style elements?
Tone
What is a text structure that presents a problem or series of problems with suggestions on how to solve them?
Problem and Solution
Which type of figurative language is the following example:
“If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir.”
Personification
What is the part of an essay where you address the audience directly and tell them what you want them to do based on the information you have presented to them?
Call to action
What is a text structure that explains how or why something happened?
Cause and effect
What is the subject of a text, usually expressed as a single word or phrase in the form of a noun?
Topic
What is a text structure that details a subject’s characteristics?
Description
What mood is created by the following example of figurative language:
"... Mildred ran from the parlor like a native fleeing an eruption of Vesuvius."
Urgent, excited
What is a statement that shares the central idea of an essay found at the end of the introduction?
A thesis statement
What is a text structure that explains similarities and differences between two or more things?
Compare and Contrast
What is a way of expressing something in writing or speech that is developed using various techniques?
Style
What is a text structure that presents steps in a process?
Sequence
What mood is created by the following example of figurative language:
"His flesh gripped him and shrank as if it had been plunged in acid."
Panicked, distressed, horrified
What is the most important point that an author makes about a topic in a text?
Central Idea
Which text structure is being used in the following example:
"...the finite number of ways that facial muscles can move creates a basic template of expressions that are then filtered through culture to gain meaning. If this is indeed the case, such cultural diversity in facial expressions will prove challenging to emerging technologies that aspire to decode and react to human emotion..."
Cause and effect