Literary Texts
Across Texts
Writing
Revising
Editing
100

literature in the form of prose, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people.

Fiction

100

Dealing with love in a sentimental or idealized way.

Romance

100

A thing preliminary to something else, especially an explanatory section at the beginning of a book, report, or speech.

Introduction

100

To change or improve the sentence, paragraph, or over all message. 

Revise

100

To correct or fix mistakes before submitting a final copy

Edit

200

A book, document, or piece of music written by hand rather than typed or printed.


Manuscript

200

The faculty or activity of imagining things, especially things that are impossible or improbable.

Fantasy

200

The marks, such as period, comma, and parentheses, used in writing to separate sentences and their elements and to clarify meaning

Punctuation

200

This sentence elaborates on and supports the main idea of something.

Supporting Sentence.

200

To bring together or join two things as one

Combining 

300
Writing that is based on facts, real events, and real people, such as biography or history.


Nonfiction

300
Fiction based on imagined future scientific or technological advances and major social or environmental changes, frequently portraying space or time travel and life on other planets.


Science Fiction

300

The main or central part of something

Body

300

The authors feelings towards a subject and how his/her feelings are conveyed.

Tone

300

To substitute a word or sentence for another to make a sentence better.

Replace

400

Literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm.


Poetry

400

An action or activity that, although not illegal, is considered to be evil, shameful, or wrong.

Crime

400

The summing-up of an argument or text

Conclusion

400

What the text is mainly about

Main Idea

400

To write again.

Rewrite

500

A statement or theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or proved.

Thesis

500

Written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure.

Prose

500

The whole system and structure of a language or of languages in general, usually taken as consisting of syntax and morphology (including inflections) and sometimes also phonology and semantics.

Grammar

500

Words that paint a vivid picture in the reader's mind.

Imagery

500

To add a word or sentence 

Insert

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