Language that uses details that appeal to the senses so that a
reader may easily imagine how something looks, sounds, feels, tastes, or smells. Often called “sensory details,” may be literal or figurative.
Descriptive language
100
To change a piece of writing to improve it in style or content; may include adding or deleting ideas, reorganizing, and correcting mechanical errors.
Revise
100
Something written or drawn that presents information in an organized, easily viewed form. Usually includes labels for clarity. A type of graphic organizer.
Chart
200
The receiver before Jonas
Who is Rosemary?
200
She really threw me a curve...
She surprised me...
Idiom
200
In writing, the implicit or explicit message maintained throughout a
piece of writing. “Main idea” is a related term used in reading.
Controlling Idea
200
The person or character who is telling the story.
Narrator
200
A graphic organizer that may be used as a prewriting activity to generate many ideas around a concept, theme, or topic, or as a graphic representation of a :student’s understanding of his or her reading. “Clustering” is a related term, and is often used
synonymously.
Webbing
300
What was the receiver's purpose?
To hold the knowledge and wisdom of previous generations and other communities. Advises the committee of elders.
300
To use previous knowledge and come to a conclusion
Inference
300
Elements that bind the writing together as a whole.
may include a logical method of sentence arrangement; pronouns that refer to previous sentences; repetition of words, synonyms, or ideas to create an effect; parallel sentence
structure; or transitional words such as “first,” “last,” and “also.”
Cohesive device
300
The feeling created in the reader by a literary passage.
Mood
300
A stylistic effect that allows a reader to identify a writer’s personality through the written word.
Voice
400
What did Jonas learn from his first memory?
Sled, snow, hill, excitement.
400
Ya'll come back now ya hear?
vs
Come back here, ok?
Dialect
400
To place persons or things together in a group because they are similar in some
way.
Classify
400
A visual device for organizing information around a concept,
theme, or topic (for example, charts, graphs, Venn diagrams, mind maps, webs, drawings,
etc.).
Graphic Organizer
400
A controlling statement to be supported in a piece of writing.
Thesis Statement
500
What was the goal of Jonas's plan?
To break the cycle and give the memories back to the community.
500
Writing or speech not intended to be interpreted literally.
Is written or spoken to create a special effect or feeling. Examples
include figures of speech such as simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, irony,
paradox, and oxymoron.
Figurative language
500
Writing that shows a clear relationship between the writing
prompt and the controlling idea of the paper.
Addresses the topic.
500
The process of writing quickly and freely on any topic. is
often used as a prewriting activity before a more formal drafting process.
free writing
500
A condensed version of a story or reading passage that includes the mainpoints of the beginning, middle, and end. On the Communication Arts MAP Test, the words “In your own words.. .”