This is taken from the text, video, or source material and is used to support the argument we are trying to make.
What is evidence?
This is another word for a story?
What is narrative?
A comparison between two things that use like or as.
What is a simile?
Where characters and setting are introduced.
What is exposition?
When the story jumps back in time to tell about something that happened before?
What is flashback?
This is the position we have taken on a prompt or argument.
What is the claim?
This is the diagram of how we tell stories.
What is a plot diagram or storytelling arc?
A comparison between two things that does not use like or as.
What is a metaphor?
What is the conflict?
The perspective that the story is told from.
What is point of view?
This is where we explain how the evidence supports the argument.
What is reasoning?
This type of narrative focuses on one real event from the author's life.
What is personal narrative?
Giving human-like characteristics to non-human things.
What is personification?
Where most of the story takes place and it builds the suspense.
What is the rising action?
It adds to the excitement and keeps you on the edge of your seat.
What is suspense?
This is the opposing or opposite side of the argument.
What is a counterclaim or rebuttal?
The part of a story where characters are speaking to one another and uses quotation marks.
What is dialogue?
This is the repetition of the consonant sound at the beginning of a word?
What is alliteration?
The turning point or highest point of action.
What is the climax?
When the story ends before you find out what happened.
What is a cliffhanger?
There should never be any of this in an argument piece of writing.
What is opinion?
These are descriptions used in a story that focus on our senses.
What are sensory details?
Deliberate exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
Where all the loose ends are tied up and questions are answered.
What is falling action?
Where the audience or reader gets a hint about what is going to happen in the future.
What is foreshadowing?