The smallest unit of a poem; a group of words arranged in a line.
What is a line?
100
The way and order by which an author presents information in a piece.
What is organization?
100
The author's intentional use of a rich and robust vocabulary to infer specific meaning or tone in writing.
What is diction?
100
When reading a literary piece, breaking the essay into chunks by using boxes to summarize various sections of the piece.
What is to kernel?
200
The process of arriving to a conclusion that is not directly stated.
What is an inference?
200
A group of lines in a poem, separated by space from other groups of lines.
What is a stanza?
200
The organizational structure which gives an event and the result of an event.
What is cause and effect?
200
The use of extensive information to support a position in a paper or to elaborate on an idea or topic.
What are details?
200
A concept borrowed from math where a writer starts with a broad topic and uses a tree-like structure to define the details, examples, and supporting elements to that broad topic.
What is factoring?
300
The type of fiction based on scientific concepts that uses believable and unbelievable elements.
What is science fiction?
300
The poem "400-Meter Freestyle" was a strong example of the use of this.
What is graphic elements?
300
Presenting information as they are relevant by space, area, or geographical location.
What is spatial order?
300
The use of words that help a reader experience a piece of literature through any of the five senses, often using metaphor, simile, or hyperbole.
What is imagery?
300
"If you've heard it once, you've heard it a million times..."
"A picture is worth a thousand words..."
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you..."
And other popular phrases that lack meaning and induce projectile vomiting of all literary scholars and teachers across the world.
What is a cliche?
400
Derived from using plot, characterization, tone, and purpose.
What is author's point of view?
400
A component of poetry using small amounts of words with very clear meaning or strong metaphor.
What is concentrated, concrete use of language?
400
Understanding an organizational structure and combining the information given in that structure to reach a decision or form an opinion that is not directly stated.
What is a complex conclusion?
400
The position an author takes about a topic expressed through diction, imagery, and details.
What is tone?
400
The single most important sentence in a non-fiction piece which tells the reader what the author's opinion is on the topic and designs the structure of the paper to follow.
What is the thesis statement?
500
The literary genre of fiction that uses irony, humor, and sometimes sarcasm to expose humanity's flaws and shortcomings.
What is satire?
500
Graphic elements may include line length, word position, and this element which tells a reader when to stop, start, or pause.
What is punctuation?
500
The three types of evidence found in non-fiction.
What are logical, empirical, and anecdotal?
500
The overall message, intent, or idea of a piece of literature.
What is the controlling idea?
500
Two organizational strategies that could be executed in persuasive writing.
What are cause/effect, compare/contrast, barking dog, good/bad, etc.?