Expository Techniques
This technique involves using numerical data and percentages to make an author's argument more objective and convincing.
What are Statistics?
This is the perspective from which the story is told, such as first-person (using "I") or third-person (using "he," "she," or "they").
What is Point of view (POV)?
This figure of speech is a direct comparison between two unlike things using the words "like" or "as."
What is a Simile?
This structure explains how two or more things are alike and how they are different.
What is Compare and Contrast?
This is the very beginning of the story where the characters, setting, and basic conflict are introduced.
What is the Exposition?
Headings, bold text, captions, and glossaries are all examples of this expository technique that helps organize and clarify the content for the reader.
What are Text features?
This technique is when the author provides hints or clues early in the story about events that will happen later on.
What is Foreshadowing?
This is the use of descriptive language that appeals to the five senses (sight, sound, taste, touch, smell), painting a vivid picture in the reader's mind.
What is Imagery?
This structure presents an issue, then details the reasons for that issue, and finally suggests potential remedies.
What is Problem and Solution?
This stage is also called the turning point because it is the moment of highest tension or drama, where the main conflict comes to a head.
What is the Climax?
This is a general term for all the specific examples, quotes, or data used to support the author's main point.
What is Evidence?
What is the overall feeling, or atmosphere, that a story creates for the reader?
What is Mood?
This figure of speech is a direct comparison between two unlike things, stating that one thing is another thing, without using "like" or "as."
What is a Metaphor?
This structure presents events or steps in the order in which they happened or should be followed, often using transition words like first, next, and finally.
What is Sequence (or Chronological Order)?
This stage includes all the events that follow the climax, where the tension begins to ease and the conflict starts to be resolved.
What is the Falling Action?
In an expository essay, authors sometimes use this technique, which means they are focusing on more than one central topic instead of just one main idea.
What are Multiple main ideas?
This technique interrupts the present action of the story to show an event that happened at an earlier time.
What is Flashback?
This technique uses words whose sounds imitate their meanings, such as buzz, hiss, or crash.
What is Onomatopoeia?
This structure presents an event or situation and then explains the results or after-effects that followed.
What is Cause and Effect?
This stage includes the series of events that build suspense and lead up to the climax, as the main conflict develops.
What is the Rising Action?
What is the name for the small, specific pieces of information that help elaborate on and prove a main idea in a paragraph?
What are Key details?
This refers to the author's attitude toward the subject matter or the audience, which can be playful, serious, sarcastic, or formal.
What is Tone?
This technique gives human qualities or characteristics to non-human or inanimate objects, like "The wind whispered secrets."
What is Personification?
This structure introduces a single topic and then gives many specific features, examples, or characteristics related to it. |
What is Description?
This is the very end of the story where the conflict is settled, loose ends are tied up, and the story reaches its final conclusion.
What is the Resolution?