Writing Terms
Writing Techniques
Prefixes
Suffixes
Types of Writing
100
The main part of a piece of writing, containing details that support or develop the thesis statement.
What is body?
100
A reference to a familiar person, place, thing, or event.
What is allusion?
100
Means not, contrary to or opposite of.
What is "un"?
100
Means one who (occupation).
What is "ant"?
100
An thoughtful piece of writing in which ideas are explained, analyzed, or evaluated.
What is essay?
200
Collecting ideas by thinking freely about all the possibilities; used most often with groups.
What is brainstorming?
200
An overstatement or a stretching of the truth to emphasize a point.
What is exaggeration?
200
Means between or among.
What is "inter"?
200
Means state, quality of.
What is "ity"?
200
A creative expression that may use rhyme, rhythm, and imagery.
What is poem?
300
A phrase or an expression that means something different from what the words actually say.
What is idiom?
300
A technique in which a writer interrupts a story to go back and relive an earlier time or event.
What is flashback?
300
Means half, partial or happening two times during
What is "semi"?
300
Means state or quality of.
What is "ity"?
300
A writer's story of someone else's life.
What is biography?
400
The writer's attitude toward the subject.
What is tone?
400
Hints about what will happen in a story.
What is foreshadowing?
400
Means bad, wrong, failure or lack.
What is "mis"?
400
Means belief system, doctrine, practice.
What is "ism"?
400
An invented story based on an actual historical event.
What is historical fiction?
500
Language that goes beyond the normal meaning of the words used, often called "figures of speech".
What is figurative language?
500
A comparison of similar ideas or objects to help clarify one of them.
What is analogy?
500
Means opposite, counteracting.
What is "anti"?
500
Means pertaining to, being.
What is "ish"?
500
Writing regularly to record personal observations, thoughts, and ideas.
What is journal writing.
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