Literary Terms
Roots
Writing
Poetry
Figurative Language
100

When and where a story takes place.

Setting
100

means life

Bio

100

What type of writing includes the five components: the characters, the setting, the plot, the conflict, and the resolution. Writing that may be personal to someone. 

Narrative Writing

100

The feeling a reader gets from a piece of literature

Mood

100

This coffee shop is an icebox!

Metaphor

200

important information that tells more about the overall idea of a paragraph or section of a text.

Main Idea

200

means Earth

Geo

200

The type of writing you use to convey information.

Informational/Informative Writing

200

The repetition of identical concluding syllables 

Rhyme
200

The sky misses the sun at night.

Personification

300

to write something in your own words

Paraphrasing

300

means small

Micro

300

Trying to persuade someone through writing. 

Opinion/Persuasive Writing

300

Humorous poem with 5 lines. Follows pattern AABBA.

Limerick

300

I said it a million times.

Hyperbole

400

Give a brief statement of the main points of something.

Summarizing

400

means many

Poly/Multi

400

In writing, it states the opposite 

Counter Claim

400

Four line stanza in a poem

Quatrain

400
Straight from the horses mouth. 

Idiom

500

all the components of a story or article that are not the main body of text.

text features

500

means straight

Ortho

500

An intelligent discussion

Arguement/Debate

500

Long, narrative poem telling the events of a hero's deeds. 

Epic
500

Love is blind.

Cliche 

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