Writing Techniques
Sentences that include touch, taste, smell, sight and sound.
The sequence of events the builds the tension of the conflict.
What is Rising Action?
What is a hook or opening sentence?
What is Theme
What is the moral or the lesson of the story?
Drop the reader straight into an event or conflict without setup.
What is En Medias Res?
A word that sounds like the noise or action it is describing.
The time and place in which a story occurs.
What is setting?
What is Falling Action?
The qualities, feelings, thoughts, and beliefs that make up a person's inner self, not directly observable by others
What is Internal Character Traits?
Open with vivid sensory details of the environment to create mood and context.
What is describing setting?
Giving human qualities to non-human things or entities.
What is personification?
The ending of a story.
What is resolution?
What POV is it when someone writes using words like "You", "your"
What is 2nd person?
The observable qualities and features of a character, encompassing their physical appearance (clothing, hair color, or height) as well as their behavior (mannerisms, tone of voice, or habits).
What is External Character traits?
Show something distinctive about your character that hints at their backstory or personality.
What is a Character Snapshot?
Direct comparison of two things using the words "like" or "as".
What is Simile
Part of a story that introduces the setting and characters.
What is Exposition?
A character's psychological or emotional struggle within their own mind, driven by conflicting desires, fears, moral dilemmas, or values.
What is an internal conflict?
A story written from an outside point of view using pronouns like I, Me, My, and Mine.
What is First Person?
Start by anchoring the reader in a memory or past event that will matter to the current story.
What is Flashback?
Figure of speech used to show/express extreme exaggeration.
Part of a story that features a turning point for the protagonist/narrator.
A struggle with outside forces.
What is a External Conflict?
What POV is it when you write using words like: he, she, they, them?
What is 3rd person?
Open with a bold or puzzling statement to spark curiosity.
What is an Intriguing Statement?