Lit Terms
The author's feelings towards the writing.
What is tone?
The reader's feelings towards the writing.
What is mood?
Metamorphosis and The Lottery.
What is fiction?
Words used to indicate cause and effect or a change in topic.
What are transitions?
An essay to prove your claim.
What is an argumentative essay?
Adding in information from something that happened in the past.
What is a flashback?
Adding in information about what happens in the future, then going back to the present.
What is a flash forward?
Simplexity, Hope for Animals, and biographies.
What is non-fiction?
Similes, metaphors, onomatopoeia
To explain, share ideas, or persuade.
An educated guess.
What is an inference?
The author's perspective.
What is point of view?
My So Called Enemy and Rivers and Tides.
What is a documentary?
Essays like Simplexity show the __________ and ____________ of actions.
What is cause and effect?
When writing you need to cite this to back up your argument.
The situation for which a piece of writing is created.
What is context?
The message or lesson from a reading.
What is theme?
The Texas v. Johnson Majority Opinion and The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
What are historical documents?
A deceptive, misleading, or false idea or belief.
What is a fallacy?
Putting someone else's thoughts into your own words.
What is paraphrasing?
Sayings that have a different meaning from the literal one, for example: I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.
What is an idiom?
A summary without your emotions added.
What is an objective summary?
Formal writing
How should you write an essay?
Hinting at something that's going to happen.
What is foreshadowing?
A literary term for the way people talk naturally.
What is colloquialism?