Four Modes of Writing
Oral Reading
Who's Who
Story Elements
Lights, Camera, Plot!
100
A writer uses this mode of writing to inform or educate their audience.
What is Expository?
100
Name 1 characteristic of good oral reading.
What is Accuracy?
100
Paula is the prettiest-- "Prettiest" would be an example of what part of speech?
What is an Adjective?
100
Where a story or poem takes place.
What is Setting?
100
The sequence of events in a story.
What is plot?
200
A writer uses this writing to persuade their audience.
What is Persuasion?
200
This is how fast you read.
What is Rate?
200
Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers... Or Paula is the prettiest...look at the "P's" to discover this term that begins with an "A".
What is alliteration?
200
The character's problem in a story or poem.
What is Conflict?
200
This "first" plot element is a tense moment, a problem, a situation
What is Initial Conflict?
300
A writer uses this writing to describe something to their audience.
What is Description?
300
This is when you give emphasis and expression to your reading.
What is Expressiveness or Inflection?
300
"Who's Who" is a poem that does or does not have rhyme?
What is DOES HAVE RHYME?
300
The person who tells the story and the story he or she creates. (2 answers)
What is narrator and narrative?
300
All the conflicts leading up to the Climax.
What is Rising Action?
400
A writer uses this writing to tell a story.
What is Narrative?
400
When you mispronounce a word, say the word wrong, what part of oral reading are you lacking in?
What is accuracy?
400
The rhyme pattern in Who's Who is ... A,A, B, B A,B, A, B A, B, B, A
What is A, B, A, B?
400
The perspective from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
400
All the conflicts after the Climax.
What is Falling Action?
500
"Who's Who" is a poem that uses what type of writing--narrative, descriptive, persuasive, or expository?
What is Narrative?
500
This is the tonal and rhythmic aspects of spoken language.
What is Inflection or Expressiveness?
500
"Who's Who" is written by ...
What is Judith Viorst?
500
This term is how an author reveals character--whether through dialogue, action, or what other characters say about him.
What is characterization?
500
This plot element is how a story is ended.
What is Resolution?
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