Styles of Writing and Writing Techniques (cont'd)...
Parts of a Story or Play
Literary Formats
Figurative Language and Poetry
100
The repetition of the same/similar consonant sounds in words close together.
Alliteration
100
A short piece of nonfiction prose where the writer discusses some aspect of a particular subject.
What is an essay?
100
The struggle between opposing forces or characters in a story.
What is conflict?
100
A very short story of prose or poetry that teaches a practical lesson about how to succeed in life.
What is a fable?
100
What is a sonnet?A fourteen line poem that is usually written in iambic pentameter.
What is a sonnet?
200
A series of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in the plot.
What is foreshadowing?
200
The character that is in direct oppostion to the main charcter; often described as the villian.
What is the antagonist?
200
The central or main character in a story usually pitted against an outside force.
What is a protagonist?
200
The act of giving human characteristics to something that is not human.
What is personification?
200
A comparison without using the words like or as.
What is a metaphor?
300
When animals or inanimate objects are given human characteristics. What is anthropomorphism?
What is anthropomorphism?
300
Something that stands for or represents something else. Sometimes the thing that it represents is greater than itself.
What is a symbol?
300
The five parts of a plot diagram
What is expostion, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution or conclusion.
300
A story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people, events, abstract ideas, or qualities.
What is an allegory?
300
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms.
What is an oxymoron?
400
The repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds
What is assonance?
400
What is an analogy?
A comparison made between two things to show how they are alike.
What is an analogy?
400
A character who acts in contrast to another character. (Basically, they are opposites)
What is a foil?
400
A relatively short story that teaches a moral or lesson about how to lead a good life. What is a parable?
What is a parable?
400
A figure of speech that makes explicit comparison between two unlike things using the words like or as.
What is a simile?
500
This type of play end unfavorably usually with the death of some of the major characters.
What is a tragedy?
500
When the opposite occurs from what is expected
What is irony?
500
The major turning point in a story when the reader's interest is the most high.
What is the climax?
500
A long speech made by a character in a play when no other characters are on stage. It is used to provide the audience/reader with the feelings of that specific character.
What is a soliloquy?
500
A Japanese poetic form consisting of three lines. The first line has 5 syllables, the second line has 7 syllables, and the third line has 5 syllables.