Literary Terms
Tone is ______.
What is the AUTHOR’S attitude toward the topic/idea?
The definition of dialogue is ________.
What is a conversation between characters in a story/text?
Cause and Effect is _______.
What is a text structure that organizes information to explain why something happened (cause) and what happened (effect)?
The man visited France Italy and Germany.
What is "The man visited France, Italy, and Germany."
What part of speech is A person, Place, Thing, or an Idea
A Noun
Point of view (POV) means ___________.
What is the perspective from which a story is told?
Definition of this word is help to cause or bring about
What is Contribute?
A way of organizing information in a text by presenting events, actions, or steps in the order they occurred is called ________.
What is Chronological?
She went to the gym and she treated herself with HTeaO.
What is "She went to the gym, and she treated herself with HTeaO."
What is an Adjective?
A word that describes an noun
A playwright is a _________.
What is a person who writes a play?
The definition of transition is ______________.
What is a word, phrase, sentence, paragraph, or punctuation that connects ideas, paragraphs, or sections of a text?
What is informational text?
What is nonfiction writing, written with the intention of informing the reader about a specific topic?
The cat frightened and confused hid under the bed.
The cat, frightened and confused, hid under the bed.
A verb is a word that
A stanza is ________.
What is a group of lines in a poem that are separated from other lines by a blank line or indentation. Stanzas are a way to organize a poem and guide the reader from one idea to the next.
The definition of emphasize is _________.
What is to stress or give importance to?
What are title, subtitles, images, captions, graphics, maps, diagrams, etc?
Consequently the weather forced the officials to move the meeting.
What is "Consequently, the weather forced the officials to move the meeting."
A, an, and the are called _______
The main idea or argument that an author presents in a piece of writing is _______.
What is a thesis?
Irrelevant; unrelated; not necessary is the definition for this word.
What is extraneous?
What are poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama?
Although he was tired he stayed up late to finish his research paper.
What is "Although he was tired, he stayed up late to finish his research paper."
A pronoun is _______.
What is a word that takes the place of the noun?