author techniques
What is it called when a character is having problem with themselves?
Conflict(Internal)
Why do writers use commas while writing sentences?
to separate ideas, clauses, or items in a series
A mongoose fighting greedy snakes in garden
Rikki Tikki Tavi
What is it called when a character changes from the beginning to the end.
A Dynamic Character.
Extreme exaggeration
Hyperboly
When a physical object has greater meaning or represents something.
Symbolism
Names a person, place, thing, or idea
A story about a boy trying to create energy from the wind.
The boy who harnessed the wind
when the opposite of what you expect to happen, happens.
Irony
Comparing two unlike things without using like or as.
Metaphor
What is mood?
How the story makes you feel
What does comparing mean?
Finding ways two things are alike.
A text about a woman gymnast and her overcoming her problems.
No dream too high
A character in a story that doesn't have much to them--could be easily described.
Like a paragraph, but in a poem.
Stanza
What is tone?
How the author feels about something.
the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.
juxtaposition
A story about a fire.
Flesh and blood so cheap
When the author engages the reader by using the 5 senses. It makes writing more descriptive.
Imagery
Sound words
Onomatopoeia
A technique that is used to build up tension and excitement.
Suspense
Something that connects words, phrases, or clauses. (Ex. and, but, or because.)
Conjunction
A poem about a dad and a child's relationship.
My mother really knew.
Phases that don't mean what they say.
The pattern of end rhyme in a poem.