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Vocabulary 1
Drama
Vocabulary 2
Types of Writing
Figurative Language
100
Basic important information about a text.
What is main idea?
100
Words written in italics that explain what the characters are doing, thinking or feeling...
What are stage directions?
100
A story that is not based on true events
What is fiction
100
A type of writing that tells a story
What is narrative
100
Comparing two things usig like or as.
What is simile
200
Intended goal of a text
What is purpose?
200
How are characters developed in a drama?
What is Through dialogue and stage directions.
200
Any ordinary form of writing.
What is prose?
200
A form of writing that gives instructions or steps on how to do something make something, or play a game or sport
What is procedural
200
comparing two unlike objects
What is metaphor
300
A non fiction story written by you about your own life.
What is autobiography?
300
Name three elements of a drama...
What is Dialogue, characters, stage directions, plot, setting.
300
intended goal of a text
What is Purpose (authors purpose)
300
A type of writing that is meant to inform or explain.
What is expository
300
Giving human qualities to non human things
What is personification
400
Series of events in a story
What is plot?
400
Conversation that takes place between characters in a story
What is dialogue
400
Visual descriptive language.
What is imagery
400
A form of writing that is meant to pursuade the reader to do or believe something.
What is persuasive
400
an extreme exageration
What is hyperbole
500
Language that connects to the five senses.
What is sensory language?
500
The central idea of a text.
What is theme
500
A brief retelling of the generl idea of a text.
What is summary
500
What type of writing will you be sked to do on STAAR?
What is expository
500
using two words that are opposite in meaning to describe an object
What is oxymoron