Types of Writing
Story Elements & Reading Skills
Logic & Language
100

These are made-up stories featuring imagined characters and events

What is Fiction

100

This is a scene that interrupts the normal time order of a story to show an event from the past.

What is a Flashback?

100

A word that has the same or nearly the exact same meaning as another word, such as "glad" and "happy".

What is a Synonym?

200

This type of writing is true and based on real facts, real people, and real events

Nonfiction

200

A feeling of worry, excitement, or nervous suspense built up in a story before something happens.

What is Tension?

200

In writing, this refers to how ideas, paragraphs, or stanzas are organized.

What is Structure?

300

A true story written by a person about a specific part of their own life.

What is a Memoir?

300

A "smart guess" you make by using clues in a text plus what you already know.

Answer: What is an Inference?

300

Having the qualities, style, or beauty of poetry

What is Poetic?

400

This term describes anything having to do with books, writing, and high artistic value.

Literary

400

How a narrator, character, or writer sees and understands events based on their own feelings.

What is Perspective?

400

A set of reasons and evidence used to persuade others.

What is an Argument?

500

A true-life story told using a mix of comic art, drawings, and text.

What is a Graphic Memoir?

500

The specific words an author picks to create a clear picture, mood, or meaning.

What is Word Choice?

500

The art of using language effectively and persuasively to influence an audience.

What is Rhetoric?