Genre
In this style of writing, words are arranged in a metrical pattern and often (though not always) in rhymed verse. Use of graphic elements may include short lines, stanzas, and unconventional punctuation.
What is poetry?
What are roots?
The rules of composition used to make writing more clear and comprehensible; mechanics, spelling, capitalization.
What are conventions?
The writer of a written work or piece.
What is the author?
A struggle between opposing characters, forces, or emotions within a text.
Conflict
Imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.
What is science fiction?
Information within a text that allows readers to interpret and understand the meanings of new or unfamiliar words or phrases;
What is context clues?
The correction of mechanical features of writing, such as spelling, punctuation, and capitalization,
What is editing?
Spoken interchange between characters in a text, commonly between two or more characters or speakers
What is dialogue?
A person, animal, or other being used in a literary work to perform the action, speak dialogue, and/or move the plot forward.
What is the character?
Meant to be performed on a stage or through audio/radio.
This root word means to see
What is vis/vid/spec
A type of writing that includes a claim and counter claim, as well as evidence and reasoning.
What is Argumentative Writing?
Language that is used to create a mental image for readers; Can include figurative language, sensory details, and other literary devices
What is Imagery?
The problem in the story.
What is conflict?
A moment in time that focuses on a particular memory, with you as the narrator.
What is a personal narrative/memoir?
This root word means law or right.
What is jus?
This beginning paragraph includes the thesis statement and hook.
What is the introduction?
The process of thinking, explaining, justifying, or arguing logically; allows a reader to better understand and make sense of information.
What is reasoning?
Giving human like characteristics to non human objects/beings
What is personification?
Writing that is factual such as a text book or biography.
What is non-fiction?
What is a synonym?
A type of writing that tells a story, like a novel or short story.
What is a Narrative?
A writer or speaker’s feeling toward a subject, character, or audience communicated through the author’s choice of words and detail;
What is tone?
Boom! Poof! Roar! These are examples of what descriptive literary device?
What is onomatopoeia?