Language
Author's Technique
Elements of a Story
Author's Purpose
EXTRA
100
Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally.
What is Figurative Language?
100
Author's use of clues to hint at what might happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
100
A struggle between opposing forces.
What is conflict?
100
This is used in writing or speech to attempt, convince the reader or listener to adopt a particular opinion or course of action.
What is persuasion?
100
The most important or central thought of a paragraph or larger section of text
What is main idea?
200
A figure of speech that uses like or as to make a direct comparison between two unlike ideas.
What is a simile?
200
The author creates uncertainty about the outcome of events in a literary work. (what will happen next)
What is suspense?
200
The sequence of events in which each event results from a previous one and causes the next.
What is plot?
200
The author's purpose that are the same as explain, educate, and demonstrate.
What is informl?
200
Source material that is closest to the person
What is primary source?
300
A type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics.
What is personification?
300
The author describes a character, either through actions, dialogue, or others' reactions.
What is a characterization?
300
The turning point in the action of the plot, in which the protagonist experiences a change.
What is climax?
300
The author's purpose that means the same as to encourage, warn, or convince.
What is persuade?
300
A passage or quotation taken or selected from a text.
What is excerpt?
400
A figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else.
What is a metaphor?
400
When there is not enough evidence to support the accuracy of a claim or idea, the evidence is ...
What is insufficient?
400
The opposing force of the main character.
What is antagonist?
400
An argument is only effective if it provides sufficient evidence to support its thesis as well as respond to this
What is conflicting or opposing viewpoint?
400
A brief story about an interesting, amusing, or strange event that can be included in writing.
What is anecdote?
500
Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the five senses.
What is sensory language or imagery?
500
The author's opinion about their topic of discussion.
What is claim?
500
The author incorporates real places, real events from the past into a fictional or made up story.
What is historical setting?
500
A parent sued a school in Nevada because she thought the uniforms were unconstitutional. What is the author's purpose of that selection?
What is inform?
500
a record of events written by a person having intimate knowledge of them and based on personal observation
What is memoir?
M
e
n
u