Literary Elements
Writing
Word Power
Poetry
Painting a Picture
100

This is the order of events in a short story, poem, novel, or play.

What is plot?

100

This kind of writing tells a story.

What is narrative writing?

100

This refers to the dictionary definition of a word.

What is denotation?

100

This term refers to words usually at the end of a line of poetry that have similar sounds.

What is rhyme?

100

These things help a reader understand physical movement in a drama or play.

What are stage directions?

200

The idea we come to based on what we read in a text plus what we already know.

What is an inference?

200

This kind of writing explains what something is or tells how to do something.

What is informative writing?

200

This refers to the emotional meanings associated with words.

What are connotations?

200

This type of figurative language gives something non-human the qualities of a person.

What is personification?

200

This is a writing technique that hints at something that will happen in the future part of a story.

What is foreshadowing?

300

This is who tells a story-- either a character in the story or someone who is not in the story.

What is a narrator?

300

This kind of writing appeals to the senses and provides vivid images of something.

What is descriptive writing?

300

This skill is taking hints from surrounding information to figure out the meaning of an unknown word.

What are context clues?

300

"My mom is a night-owl" is one example of this kind of figurative language.

What is a metaphor?

300

This kind of story paints a picture of a futuristic world of possibilities.

What is science fiction?

400

This is a statement that an author is trying to make about a specific topic through his/her writing.

What is a theme?

400

This kind of writing asks people to think with their heads or hearts to agree with the point of view of the writer.

What is argumentative writing?

400

These are parts of a word tagged onto the beginning or ending of a word that can change the word's meaning.

What are prefixes and suffixes?

400

"The cracked earth was as dry as sandpaper" is an example of this kind of figurative language.

What is a simile?

400

These kinds of stories paint a picture of the beliefs of a culture and help readers to connect to places and people they may not be familiar with.

What is a myth or folktale?

500

This is a type of story that is an actual true story, not one made-up.

What is nonfiction?

500

This short kind of writing takes another text and condenses it into the main idea/big picture in another writer's own words.

What is a summary?

500

An author can demonstrate his/her -- or attitude about something by choosing words carefully.

What is tone?

500

"My alarm clock yells and screams at me in the morning to wake up" is an example of this kind of figurative language.

What is personification?

500

This writing technique paints a picture of a character by demonstrating what the character says, does, and what others say about the character.

What is indirect characterization?

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