Story Elements
Grammar Use
Genre Conventions
Author's Purpose
Random English Stuff
150

The use of meaningful objects or things to convey an idea in a story.

What is symbolism?

150

What is the purpose of using a comma and a conjunction between two sentences? a.k.a What types of things does it do or connect?

What is connecting independent clauses?

150

The flavor, or catagory of a story that determines other elements that should be seen in it.

What is genre?

150

This is when an author uses sensationa and vivid descriptions to elicit an image in the reader's mind.

What is imagery?

150

The name for rules for how to construct sentences and ideas.

What is grammar?

225

The place, time, or type of sitiution in which a story is placed for its telling.

What is a setting?

225
The way to connect independant clauses with more detail and direction than simple coordinating conjunctions.

What is SCAC? (Semicolon, Coordinating Adjective, Comma).

225

What genre contains elements like heightened emotions, love triangles and connections, and expressions of feelings like love?

What is romance?

225

Author's add this as a means of increasing interest in a story between characters and their situations or other characters.

What is conflict?

225

The most common size of wooden pencil used in writing.

What is number 2?
315

The two sets of feelings for writing, one is how the author seems to use words and feel as they speak, and the other is how the reader is intended to feel.

What are tone and mood?

315
A collection of words containing a subject of conversation, and the action/predicate it is performing.

What is a clause?

315
The type of genre for drama when emotions and situations are enhanced and exaggeratted intentionally for dramatic effect.

What is melodrama?

315

Author's drive stories to these as a way of beginnig the resolution to actions in a story. It is also the peak of events.

What is a climax?

315

The day of the week in which we most often take tests.

What is Thursday?

405

The beginning situation in a story, that explans the elements necessary to enact the plot.

What is exposition?

405

What is the subordinate conjunction in the sentence, "He fell asleep after he went home."

What is "after"?

405

What genre is similar to horror, but includes action, threatening situations, and exciting events that might give the characters dangers to overcome?

What is a thriller?

405

Author's use this to convey emotions in their own words and events in the story.

What is tone?

405

This part of speech is used to connect independant clauses when we need more detail, and is preceded by a semicolon and followed by a comma.

What is a coordinating adverb?

500

The objects or events in a story that create problems and situations for people to overcome.

What is conflict?

500
An example of a relative pronoun.

What is Who/What/Whoever/Whom/That/They?

500

The genre of poetry that is usually dedicated to an object or person directly.

What is an ode?

500

When anauthor is being persuasive, and trying to directly convince you of a point, their writing is this.

What is argumentative?

500

This type of clause is used to describe the subjects of sentences in more detail.

What is an adjective clause?

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