Genres
Stories that could have happened, but did not, or imaginary events that could not have happened.
What is fiction?
The definition of a metaphor
What is a comparison between two unalike items stating that one is or does the other?
This is something you think based on evidence, but do not know for certain.
What is an inference?
The item written after a quote from a published work
What is a citation? OR What are parenthesis and page number?
What is dialogue?
Writing with varying line lengths and emphasis on word sound as well as meaning
What is poetry?
Three kinds of vowel and consonant sounds seen in poems
What are alliteration, assonance, and consonance?
When a story is told in non-linear time for effect it might have one of these
What is a flashback?
What is a signal phrase?
At the heat of the moment, the biggest moment of tension, a story is in this phase of plot
What is the climax?
Writing in blocks of text such as paragraphs and pages
What is prose?
The hills have eyes would be an example of this because it does this
What is personification because it gives a human characteristic (eyes) to a non-living item (hills)?
Every strong paragraph is based on this
What is a claim?
Where the quotation marks go in a piece of evidence
What is the exact words from the published text with no spaces between the quotation marks and the words?
When writers show what characters are like by how they act and what they say
What is characterization?
What is narration?
Creates a mental picture; for instance, "the red-gold streaks of sunset faded to black and a deep chill tore into the air"
What is imagery?
Author's feeling toward the subject and reader's feeling about the subject in the order listed in this statement
What are tone and mood?
Why we do so much &^*% work to quote properly
What is to give credit to others for their ideas
OR
What is to notify the reader that we're writing someone else's ideas
The deeper or bigger meaning to a story
What is the theme?
Examines complex ideas, concepts, and information in a brief format
What is summary?
A pattern of sounds within or at the end of lines of poetry
What is rhyme?
Level of specificity for a topic sentence should be this
What is the most general in the paragraph?
Where the period goes in a quote that ends its sentence
What is at the very, very end, after the last parenthesis?
The primary author's purpose for narrative storytelling
What is to entertain?