General Terms
Poetry Terms
Viewing Terms
Writing Terms
Writing Terms
100
Writing that tells a story or part of a story
What is narrative writing?
100
A comparison between two unlike things using like or as
What is a simile?
100
Part of a visual that is the main area of interest.
What is focal point?
100
The people for whom a piece of literature is created.
What is audience?
100
The author's attitude towards the subject that he/she is writing about.
What is tone?
200
A technique for providing clues about events that may happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
200
A comparison between two unlike things without using the words like or as.
What is a metaphor?
200
Sequence of images used to plan a film, video, television program, drama, story or presentation.
What is storyboard?
200
To examine two or more items by looking at only their differences.
What is contrast?
200
A quality of oneness, in which the parts hang together.
What is unity?
300
The actual words that characters speak.
What is dialogue?
300
A literary device in which human qualities or actions are attributed to non-human beings or objects.
What is personification?
300
Includes examining texts for aesthetic, emotive, affective qualities, elements of design and colour.
What is visual literacy?
300
The author's choice of words.
What is diction?
300
To express in shorter.
What is summarizing?
400
A person presented in a dramatic or narrative work.
What is character?
400
The sound of a word resemble its meaning.
What is onomatopoeia?
400
The relative size of objects within the visual.
What is scale?
400
The reason why something has been written or created.
What is purpose?
400
Is a personality of the speaker or creator that is revealed in a work through such elements as style, tone, diction, etc.
What is voice?
500
The author's arrangement of events that make up the action of the story.
What is plot?
500
Language that means exactly what it says.
What is literal meaning?
500
The way shapes are arranged.
What is balance?
500
The stress or focus on a part or a whole.
What is emphasis?
500
The central argument of an essay.
What is thesis?
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