4.1
4.2
4.3
Terms
100
Who? What? When? Where? How?
What is the 5 W's and H?
100
Format that most news stories are written in
What is inverted pyramid format?
100
Storytelling style
What is narrative style?
100
Most important piece of information writer wants to get across to the reader
What is the Central Point?
200
Summarizes the story in a clear, factual beginning paragraph
What is a summary lead?
200
News agencies that send out syndicated news items to media
What is wire services?
200
The turn in the story
What is the transition paragraph?
200
Another term for linotype
What is hot type?
300
Allows the writer to become a storyteller and hint at interesting things to come
What is a descriptive lead?
300
Product of a linotype machine
What is a copy?
300
Bottom part of the story
What is the narrative?
300
Paragraph that states the central point of the story.
What is a nut graph?
400
starts the story with something one of the subjects has said
What is a quotation lead?
400
Another word for Associated Press Style
What is AP style?
400
The beginning of the story
What is the top?
400
Something at the beginning of the story
What is a lead?
500
When readers are told to do something
What is a direct address lead?
500
Kind of approach is the inverted pyramid
What is the upside down approach?
500
Three ways of organizing news and feature stories
What is narrative, hourglass, and focus styles?
500
Exercise many professional writers use to employ and move ideas in their heads
What is free writing?
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