Fiction
The problem in the story
What is CONFLICT?
units of action in a drama
What are ACTS?
The group of lines in a poem
What is a STANZA?
The reason the author has for writing ( Inform, persuade, express, & entertain)
What is AUTHOR'S PURPOSE?
not the same as each other
What is DIFFERENT?
a speaker or character who tells a story
What is a NARRATOR?
the problem in the story
What is CONFLICT?
The units of language used in each stanza of a poem
What is a LINE?
the main point or underlying direction of a piece of writing
What is a CONTROLLING IDEA?
The idea of one’s thought or side to be unlike another’s
What is DIFFER or DIFFERENCE.
The _______ can help readers know more about characters and their situation and the perspective from which a story is told.
What is POINT OF VIEW / POV?
subdivision of an act in a play indicating changes in location or the passage of time
What are SCENES?
repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis
What is REPETITION?
details that support the main idea of a paragraph
What are SUPPORTING IDEAS?
The looking at two different texts to see how they are similar and different
What is COMPARE & CONTRAST?
text is written from the author or narrator’s/character’s perspective and uses “I”, “me”, “we”, and/or “us”
What is 1ST PERSON POINT OF VIEW?
the author of a play
What is a PLAYWRIGHT?
The way an idea or, or image can stand for itself and represent something beyond itself
What is SYMBOL / SYMBOLIZE?
showing by example; a picture
What is ILLUSTRATION?
The concept of ideas that are almost the same
What is SIMILAR?
text is written from an outside perspective and uses pronouns “he”, “she”, “them”, “they”
What is 3RD PERSON POINT OF VIEW?
The person/persons within a drama; usually listed out & followed by a short description
What is a CHARACTER?
The way a person feels throughout or after the reading based on author’s use of words
What is MOOD?
A personal view or attitude
What is OPINION?
The showing or proving of a connection between 2 things or ideas
What is RELATE/RELATES?
The time, period, or place a story is
What is SETTING?
the dialogue of a play; the words actors say in performance
What are LINES?
The lessons about life readers come to by the end of piece
What is THEME?
a title or short description of a picture
What is CAPTION?
A technique that an author or speaker uses to connect with or persuade an audience
What is RHETORICAL DEVICE?
specific characteristic of an individual
What is a CHARACTER TRAIT?
the reason or reasons one has for acting or behaving in a particular way
What is MOTIVATION?
The pattern of rhyme in a poem
What is RHYME SCHEME?
a group of words taken from a text or speech and repeated by someone other than the original author or speaker
What are QUOTATIONS?
The idea of one to be equal to
What is MATCHES?
A comparison without using like or as
What is METAPHOR?
words or phrases that address the five senses: sight, smell, hearing, taste, touch
What is SENSORY LANGUAGE?
the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea
What is PERSONIFICATION?
The intended target group for a message
What is the AUDIENCE?
The arrival of a conclusion based solely on the information from text as a thought
What is INFER?
The comparison of two unlike things using like or as
What is SIMILE?
instructions for actors and stage crew
What are STAGE DIRECTIONS?
The poet's attitude in poem: word choice for speaker, reader, and subject matter
What is TONE?
To present the ideas or words of another as one’s own without crediting the source
What is PLAGERIZE?
The same opinion held by two people or readers of text
What is AGREE?
The universal message/lesson that readers can take and then apply to their own life
What is THEME?
conversation between characters
What is DIALOGUE?
The writers distinctive use of language (word choice)
What is VOICE?
a diagram, model, or graph that provides information in an easy-to-read format
What is GRAPHIC FEATURE?
A source from the time in which an event being studied occurred and created by someone who was present at the event
Sequence of events in a story
What is PLOT?
theme of a story, novel, poem, or drama that readers can apply to life
What is CENTRAL MESSAGE?
figurative and/or descriptive language that creates an image in the mind of the reader by appealing to the five senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)
What is IMAGERY?
A particular inclination, feeling, or opinion about a subject that is often preconceived
What is BIAS?
A source that is a step removed from the original accounts of an event or experience
the use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
What is FORESHADOWING?
the author’s particular attitude, either stated or implied in writing
What is TONE
strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound
What is RHYTHM?
what went wrong and how it was/or could be fixed
What is Organizational Pattern: PROBLEM-SOLUTION
The purpose is to show similarities in process or in structure
What is ANALOGY?
writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally
What is FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE?
the time and place in which a narrative occurs
What is SETTING
a metaphor in which the comparison is carried through several lines or even the entire literary work
What is an EXTENDED METAPHOR?
presents items or events in order or tells the steps to follow
What is a CHRONOLOGICAL/SEQUENTIAL ORDER?
An incorrect or problematic argument that uses incorrect logic.
What is a LOGICAL FALLACY?
vivid and specific, and helps someone imagine a scene he didn't witness
What is DESCRIPTIVE LANGUAGE?
the atmosphere or feeling created by the writer in a literary work or passage
What is MOOD
words that express something that is in opposition to the truth or the opposite of what a person may really feel or think; sarcasm
What is IRONY?
The author's statement or position on a particular issue found in the text
What is CLAIM?
Ideas that are placed close together in order to compare or contrast them for effect