Vocab
Writers Tools
Author's Purpose
Story Elements
Text Structure
100

A written or printed work

Text

100

Hints or clues that suggest what will happen later in a story.


Foreshadowing 

100

A text meant to educate you 

Inform

100

The time and place of a story.



Setting


100

A narration of a story?

A descriptive or narrative text 

200

Analyze?

To examine or look at closely  

200

The author interrupts the plot of the story to recreate an event of an earlier time, usually to explain something that is taking place in the story.

Flashback

200

A text written for leisure or intrest

Entertainment

200

The first segment of the plot is where characters, setting, and basic situation are revealed.


Exposition/Beginning

200

Chronological Order 

A list of time ordered events 

300

The main idea, or overal meaning or idea of the text

Central Idea

300

The anxiety a reader feels about what will happen next in a story.

Suspense

300

A text written to convince you or coax you into doing or believing something 

Persuade 

300

Loose ends of the plot are tied up, the remaining questions are answered, and conflicts are resolved.

Resolution/Ending


300

Problem & Solution

When something happens and you fix it

400

An obejective summary is an ___ summary of a text

unbiased 

400

A figure of speech that makes a reference to people, places, events, or literary works directly or by implying them. It is up to the reader to make the connection.

Allusion

400

The author's attitude toward a subject, character, or audience. (Read carefully)


Tone

400

A struggle between two opposing forces.


Conflict

400

Sequence

An step by step order of events or instructions 

500

The overall meaning or subject of a text. The lesson that can be brought from the text.

Theme

500

When a person, place, or thing stands for something beyond itself.


Symbolism

500

The feeling or atmosphere that is created by a work of literature. (Read carefully)


Mood

500

What is a writers tool & give an example

A tool a writer uses to help develop or organize a story 

*Foreshadowing 

*Rhyming 

*Irony

*Flashback

*Suspense

500

Cause & Effect 

When something happens and something else happens as a result. 

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