Genre
Literary Terms
Literary Terms
Author's Purpose and Genre
Text Structures
100
Writing about real people, events, and ideas.
What is nonfiction
100
Bang!---Pop!---Boom!---Woof!
What is onomatopoiea
100
The message or moral a reader can apply to his/her own life from a piece of writing
What is theme
100
Your favorite One Direction song that you listen to on your walk to school.
What is to entertain/poetry.
100
The way an author organizes and presents information to the reader.
What is text structure
200
Writing about made up characters, settings, and plots.
What is fiction
200
Leah is as quiet as a mouse.
What is simile
200
The narrator's position in a story being told (1st or 3rd)
What is Point of View
200
An instructional handbook on how to use your brand new MP3 player.
What is to inform/nonfiction.
200
Organizing information in order of time.
What is chronologically
300
Writing that is musical and rhythmic and requires the reader to apply imagination and personal experiences
What is poetry
300
School is a prison.
What is metaphor
300
The beginning, middle, and end of a story. (Including exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, and resolution)
What is plot
300
A love story, set in the 1920s, about a man who creates the "perfect life" for the woman he loves.
What is to entertain/fiction.
300
Organizing information to show a difficult situation and how it was resolved.
What is problem/solution
400
This genre includes autobiographies, biographies, essays, and speeches.
What is nonfiction
400
Hutson's smartboard took its last breath.
What is personification
400
The time and place in which a piece of writing takes place.
What is setting
400
An section in your History book about the stock market crash of 1929.
What is to inform/nonfiction
400
Organizing information to show how one event led to another.
What is cause/effect
500
This genre of writing includes short stories, novels, plays, and myths.
What is fiction
500
I was starving to death during AR time.
What is hyperbole
500
Writing that creates a picture in the readers mind using sensory details.
What is imagery
500
A speech in an advertisement that tells the audience why the IPod is the best MP3 listening device ever made.
What is to persuade/nonfiction.
500
Organizing information based on direction, location, or movement.
What is spatially
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