Fiction/Literary Elements
What is a Fictional story?
A story which happened in real life.
What is a nonfiction story?
When the reader uses the overall situation to guess the meaning.
What is an inference?
The reason an author writes something.
What is Authors purpose?
Process of reviewing and correcting.
What is Revising and Editing?
When something is said which is the opposite of what is really happening.
What is irony?
Showing how two or more subjects are similar and different.
What is compare and contrast?
Hint in text or images
What is a context clue?
The perspective of the narrator's character in the story.
What is first person?
Find the mistake in the sentence.
Sally had a big bag of potatos.
What is "potatos"? (supposed to be potatoes)
A word that sounds like the sound it describes (example: boom)
What is an onomatopoeia?
Identifying a challenge and a way to fix it.
What is problem and solution?
Another word with a similar meaning that is used.
What is a synonym?
The author's or speaker's feeling toward the subject.
What is attitude?
The whole system and structure of a language or of languages in general.
What is grammar?
Using objects or ideas to represent deeper meanings.
What is symbolism?
Events shown in time order.
What is chronological order?
What is vocabulary?
A story told to give a reader a new perspective on an argument.
What is a persuasive essay?
What is missing in this sentence?
The hotel I went to during my vacation was called travago.
What is capitalization?
The author's attitude and the atmosphere or feeling created for the reader.
What Is tone & mood?
The action of mentioning things one by one.
What is enumeration?
Adorable, charming, delightful, elegant, fantastic, friendly, meticulous, resilient, serene. (What type of words are these?)
What is a descriptive word?
Point of view following one characters thoughts and feelings.
What is third person limited?
When you improve sentence flow and readability
What is syntax?