Types of Writing
Writing about a real event in your life.
Writing about a real event in your life.
Answer: What is a Personal Narrative?
The narrator uses “I” and “we.”
The narrator uses “I” and “we.”
Answer: What is First Person Point of View?
Understanding the exact meaning of words.
Understanding the exact meaning of words.
Answer: What is Literal?
Descriptive words that show sights, sounds, tastes, smells, or feelings.
Descriptive words that show sights, sounds, tastes, smells, or feelings.
Answer: What are Sensory Details?
Small parts left behind after something is gone.
Small parts left behind after something is gone.
Answer: What are Remnants?
Writing that comes from the imagination.
Writing that comes from the imagination.
Answer: What is Fiction?
The narrator talks directly to “you.”
The narrator talks directly to “you.”
Answer: What is Second Person Point of View?
The order in which events happen.
The order in which events happen.
Answer: What is Sequencing?
A character being very happy and full of energy.
A character being very happy and full of energy.
Answer: What is Exuberant?
To keep something safe from harm or damage.
To keep something safe from harm or damage.
Answer: What is Preserve?
Writing that gives information about real people or events.
Writing that gives information about real people or events.
Answer: What is Nonfiction?
The narrator is outside the story using “he,” “she,” or “they.”
The narrator is outside the story using “he,” “she,” or “they.”
Answer: What is Third Person Point of View?
Making a guess based on clues and evidence.
Making a guess based on clues and evidence.
Answer: What is Inferential?
A character who is working very hard.
A character who is working very hard.
Answer: What is Laboring?
Dropped down or passed down through family.
Dropped down or passed down through family.
Answer: What is Descended
Thinking that makes a judgment or gives an opinion.
Thinking that makes a judgment or gives an opinion.
Answer: What is Evaluative?
The voice that tells the story.
The voice that tells the story.
Answer: What is a Narrator?
The reason something happens.
The reason something happens.
Answer: What is Cause?
A quality that describes a character’s personality.
A quality that describes a character’s personality.
Answer: What is a Character Trait?
Complaining in a low voice.
Complaining in a low voice.
Answer: What is Grumbled? (optional addition)
Words that explain how an author organizes information (like cause/effect).
Words that explain how an author organizes information (like cause/effect).
Answer: What is Text Structure?
A back-and-forth conversation between characters.
A back-and-forth conversation between characters.
Answer: What is Dialogue?
What happens as a result.
What happens as a result.
Answer: What is Effect?
$500: A character who is sad or sulky.
$500: A character who is sad or sulky.
Answer: What is Sullen? (optional swap-in word if you’d like to expand)
A very strong, unpleasant smell.
A very strong, unpleasant smell.
Answer: What is a Stench? (optional addition)