Elements of Fiction
Persuasive Techniques
Text Structures
Figurative Language
Miscellaneous
100

Any person, figure, inanimate object, or animal that a story revolves around.

Characters

100

A statement in support of a product; a recommendation / positive review.

Testimonial

100

The structure gives readers a detailed description of something to give the reader a mental picture.

Description

100

When you compare to unlike things using the words like or as. 

Simile

100

A genre in nonfiction which is a story of one's own life.

Autobiography

200

When and where a story takes place.

Setting

200

Appeals that "everyone is doing it" mentality; something that is popular and everyone begins to join in.

Bandwagon
200

This structure gives readers a list of steps in a procedure. 

Sequential 

200

The information or use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the object or actions they refer to. 

Onomatopoeia 

200

Books that are about real things, people, events, and places.

Non-ficiton

300

The end of the story, all the loose ends are tied up.

Resolution

300

A conclusion is not supported by data/evidence; a claim is made and it does not make sense or evidence does not support what is being said.

Faulty Reasoning

300

The structure finds similarities and differences between two or more people, events, or ideas. 

Compare & Contrast

300
Personification is when...

You give a object or animal human traits.

300

The central point of a piece of writing. 

The main idea

400

Problems begin to get solved and the story is starting to come to an end. 

Falling Action

400

Athlete, Lebron James, is seen in a commercial drinking coca cola products. 

False Authority

400

The structure sets up a problem and explains the solution to this problem. 

Problem & Solution 

400

Repeating the same beginning sound.

Alliteration 

400

Tells us when a character is talking and identifies which character is talking.

Dialogue

500

The event that sets the story in motion.

Inciting Incident

500

A mother tells her child to go to bed, he begins to ask questions and says that he is hungry.

Red Herring

500

The structure provides the reader with information in order with times and dates.

Chronological

500

An expression that does not mean exactly what is says. It is different from its literal meaning.

Idiom

500

A fact, a statement, a quote; or event, that backs up a key idea. 

Supporting details. 

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