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Writing Basics
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100

A type of figurative language in which a non-human subject is given human characteristics

Personification

100

Something concrete that stands in for a larger abstract idea in a story

What is a symbol?

100

The feeling created by a literary work

mood

100

To prove a point about your claim you need...

Evidence AND reasoning

100

Pattern of beats or stresses in spoken or written language

Rhythm

100

The name for the narrator of a poem.

Speaker

200

The hero or main character in a story.

What is the protagonist

200

When two unalike things are compared. 

What is metaphor

200

Tension or problem between opposing forces

What is conflict?

200

a quality in an author's voice which shows what they are feeling or thinking

What is tone?


200

The use of words that imitate sounds (like oink or bang)

Onomatopoeia 

200

A three-lined Japanese verse

Haiku

300

a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary

What is an antagonist?

300

A figure of speech that uses like or as to make a direct comparison between two unlike ideas

Simile

300

be a warning or indication of (a future event)

What is foreshadowing?

300

the perspective from which a story is told

What is point of view?

300

Repetition of initial consonant sounds in a word

Alliteration

300

When there's a specific pattern to the number of stressed and unstressed symbols in a poem and all the lines have it (an example is iambic pentameter).

What is meter

400

the time, place, and circumstances in which something occurs or develops

What is setting?

400

what the text is mainly about

What is central idea or theme?

400

a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings.

What is a pun?

400

a feeling or idea or image that a word evokes, in addition to its literal or main meaning

What is connotation?

400

Repetition of sounds at the end of words

rhyme

400

A formal division of lines in a poem (like paragraphs in a poem)

What is a stanza?

500

Writing that must be interpreted through critical thinking and inference and cannot be taken literally (like metaphors and similes)

Figurative Langague

500

A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art

Allusion

500

a literary technique, by which the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character.

What is Dramatic Irony?

500

 the way an author creates and develops characters in a story, revealing their personalities, traits, and motivations

What is characterization? 

500

Descriptive writing that is rich in details connected to the five senses

What is imagery or sensory details? 

500
two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.

What is a couplet?

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