Nonfiction Writing
Poetry
Fictional Writing
Miscellaneous
Figurative Language
100

Nonfiction written primarily to do one of two things

What is to persuade or inform

100
Text that aims to present ideas and evoke an emotional experience in the reader through the use of meter, imagery and connotative and concrete words
What is Poetry
100

A person, animal, or thing telling the story or giving an account of something

What is the Narrator

100

An extended speech spoken by one speaker, either to others or as if alone

What is Monologue

100
Groups of letters placed before a word to alter its meaning
What is Prefix
200

Points of information in a text that strongly support the meaning or tell the story

What is Evidence/Supporting Details

200

An implied or indirect reference in literature to a familiar person, place, or event.  

An allusion

200
The position of the narrator in relation to the story
What is Point of View
200
A judgment based on reasoning rather than on a direct or explicit statement
What is Inference
200

An exaggeration or overstatement

What is hyperbole

300
The author's central thought
What is Main Idea
300

Specific word choices in a text that strongly support the tone, mood or meaning of the text

What is Diction

300
The prevailing emotions or atmosphere of a work derived from literary devices such as dialogue and literary elemetns such as setting
What is Mood
300

An extended metaphor in which a story being told is directly symbolizing real events or people

What is an allegory

300
An object or abstract idea given human qualities or human form
What is Personification
400

A type of nonfiction writing in which the author conveys lessons and experiences from one portion of their life.

What is Memoir

400

Descriptive or figurative language in a literary work; the use of language to create sensory impressions.

What is imagery

400
The part of a story where the plot becomes increasingly complicated
What is Rising Action
400
The use of a word or phrase to mean the exact opposite of its literal or usual meaning; incongruity between the actual result o a sequence of events and the expected result
What is Irony
400

The repetition of the initial sound of consecutive words.

What is alliteration

500
Text that includes literary elements and devices usually associated with fiction to report on actual persons, places, or events
What is Literary Nonfiction
500

Much of Shakespeare's writing is written with a set meter and rhyme scheme.  Each line has ten syllables with stressed and unstressed syllables following a pattern.

What is Iambic Pentameter
500

An organizational device used in literature to create expectation or to set up an explanation of later developments. 

What is foreshadowing

500

This is an example of....

He went to the farm, to the store, and to the baseball game.

What is parallelism/parallel structure

500

A description using two opposite ideas to create an effective description. The format is often an adjective proceeded by a noun.

What is an oxymoron

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