Language
Author's Technique
Elements of a Story
Persuasive Technique
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 is suspense?
200
The sequence of events in which each event results from a previous one and causes the next.
What is plot?
200
An approach that uses persuasion rather than logic.
What is emotional appeal?
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 inserts anything that stands for or represtents something else.
What is a symbol?
300
The turning point in the action of the plot.
What is climax?
300
A writer presents himself or herself as being trustworthy or credible.
What is ethical appeal?
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
The author's attitude toward his or her audience and subject.
What is tone?
400
The act of creating or developing a character.
What is characterization?
400
A writer uses logic, facts, data, surveys, studies, and other research to persuade.
What is logical appeal?
400
A brief story about an interesting, amusing, or strange event.
What is anecdote?
500
Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the five senses.
What is sensory language?
500
The feeling or atmosphere created by the Author in a literary work.
What is mood?
500
The author incorporates real places, real events into a fictional or made up story.
What is historical setting?
500
Persuade people to do something by letting them know that others are doing it.
What is bandwagon?
500
a record of events written by a person having intimate knowledge of them and based on personal observation
What is memoir?
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