Writer's Style
Informational Reading I
Informational Reading II
Figurative Language
Plot Devices
100
All the meanings, associations, or emotions a word suggests
What is connotation?
100
The writer's most important point, opinion, or message
What is the main idea?
100
To identify similarities between two things.
What is to compare?
100
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlikely things by using a connecting word such as "like" "as" "than"
What is a simile?
100
The sequence of related events that make up a story
What is plot?
200
The central idea or insight about human life an author wants us to obtain from reading the text.
What is theme?
200
A statement, reason, or fact for or against a point; this is what the writer tries to prove on an essay.
What is an argument?
200
To identify differences between two things.
What is to contrast?
200
A person, place, thing, or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
What is a symbol?
200
A struggle between a character and something outside himself or herself.
What is external conflict?
300
The attitude a writer takes toward a subject, a character, or the reader. The writer establishes this through word choice.
What is tone?
300
Details that support your claims and make you appear credible.
What is evidence?
300
When the writer acknowledges the arguments of those who might disagree with him or her and then shows why those arguments are wrong.
What is a counterargument?
300
A grouping of two or more lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
300
The last part of the plot, where the conflict is resolved and the story ends.
What is the resolution or denouement?
400
A brief account of an interesting incident or event that usually is intended to entertain or to make a point.
What is an anecdote?
400
The central idea of an essay.
What is a thesis statement?
400
An argument that appeals to the reader's sense of moral values; it establishes that a source is trustworthy.
What is an ethical appeal?
400
The use of words and phrases that appeal to the five senses.
What is imagery?
400
The story's most exciting or suspenseful moment, when something happens that decides the outcome of the conflict.
What is the climax?
500
The emotional effect that a piece of writing evokes in the reader.
What is mood?
500
To combine information from a variety of sources
What is synthesize?
500
A sentence at the beginning of an essay that grabs the reader's attention and makes them want to keep reading.
What is a hook?
500
Language not meant to be understood on a literal level
What is figurative language?
500
A scene in a piece of literature that interrupts the present action of the plot to show events that have happened at an earlier time.
What is a flashback?
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