Fiction/ Literary Elements
What is Fiction?
What is imaginative Writing/Stories featuring invented characters, setting, & events.
What is Nonfiction?
What is Writing that is based on facts, real events, and real people, such as biography or history.
What is Vocabulary & Context Clues?
What is vocabulary refers to the words we use and understand, while Context Clues are hints within a text (surrounding words, sentences, visuals) that help readers figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word.
What kind of point of view is the second person?
What is A story directly to the reader, using "you," "your," and "yours."
What is Grammar, Revising, & Editing?
What is Grammar is the structure, spelling, & punctuation. Revising focuses on improving ideas, organization, clarity, and flow by adding. Editing is fixing mechanics like grammar, punctuation, word choice, and final error checks.
This occurs when an author provides subtle hints early in the story about what is going to happen later.
What is foreshadowing.
The author's reason for writing a nonfiction piece, often to persuade, inform, or entertain (P.I.E.).
What is the author's purpose.
A word that means exactly the same as another word.
What is a synonym.
The author’s attitude towards their subject, which might be serious, humorous, or sarcastic.
What is Tone.
What is the error in this sentence
When Grace was having fun, the brother said, Come on grace let's go.
The error was When Grace was having fun, the brother said, "Come on Grace let's go."
The overall feeling or emotional atmosphere that a reader experiences while reading the story.
What is Mood.
A personal view, attitude, or appraisal about a topic that cannot be proven true or false.
What is an opinion.
A word that means the opposite of another word.
What is an antonym.
When a story is told by a character within the story, using "I" and "me," this is the narrative point of view.
What is First-person point of view.
My Family and I were going on a road trip to main street in dallas, texas.
what are the errors?
My family and I were going on a road trip to Main street in Dallas, Texas.
When an object, like a white whale in a story, consistently represents a much deeper, abstract concept, like obsession or fate.
What is symbolism.
This refers to the specific category or type of nonfiction writing, such as a memoir, biography, or historical account.
What is the genre.
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes.
What is personification.
A scary ghost story written to make the reader feel frightened has this as its primary purpose.
What is to entertain.
We need Flour sugar or butter for the recipe.
what are the errors in this sentence?
We need flour, sugar, and butter for the recipe.
This refers to a writer's specific word choices, which affect the style, tone, and clarity of the writing?
What is diction.
This structure uses steps in a process or instructions to explain how something is done or made?
What is sequence (or process analysis).
What can punctuation marks, such as commas, dashes, or parentheses, sometimes indicate about an unfamiliar word in a sentence?
What is they might set apart the definition or explanation of the word.
Which point of view allows an author the most freedom to share information across different times and locations within a story?
What is Third-person omniscient.
The Teacher asked who finished the Test?
What are the errors in this sentences?
The teacher asked, "Who finished the test?"