The moral or lesson of a story. The Big Picture that the author wants the reader to get
What is a Theme?
A piece of writing that describes an incident and includes a personal response to and reflection on the incident
What is a Personal Narrative?
Struggles that a character has with an outside force
What is External Conflict?
The sequence of related events that make up a story or novel
Example: (Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution)
What is a Plot?
What does the word ORIENT mean in literary terms?
To get accustomed or acquainted with an authors type of writing style
Giving a non human subject human characteristics
What is Personification?
The clear and orderly presentation of ideas in a paragraph or essay
What is Coherence?
The perspective from which a story or poem is told.
What is Point of View?
EX: I told you a million times to stop!
What is a Hyperbole
What writing strategy is used when a writer is showing communication between two characters and uses quotation marks?
What is dialogue?
A comparison between two unlike things, using the words "like" or "as“
What is a Simile?
Words or phrases that connect ideas, details, or events in writing
What is Transitions?
What type of language is a simile, metaphor, hyperbole and personification?
What is figurative language?
What is a person, place, thing or idea?
What is a noun?
What strategy is used when a writer uses the five senses to engage the reader?
What is Sensory Detail
The order in which events happen
What is the Sequence?
An initial action: an event that makes something else happen.
The result of an event or action
What is Cause-Effect?
A struggle between opposing forces in which the character struggles with his or her own needs, desires, or emotions
What is Internal Conflict?
Clues or hints signaling events that will occur later in the plot
What is Foreshadowing?
What writing strategy is used when a writer events from the past in their writing?
What is Flashback?
A comparison between two unlike things NOT using the words "like" or "as"
What is a Metaphor?
What are the different types of external conflict a character can have in a text?
What is self vs man, self vs nature and self vs society.
The suggested or implied meaning or emotion associated with a word—beyond its literal definition
What is Connotation?
The exact, literal meaning of a word
What is Denotation?
What is ask a question?