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Persuasive Writing and Constructed Responses
Potpouri
Irony
Literary Terms
Point of View
100
A strong constructed response has this many sentences.
What is five?
100
Stories have single or multiple ______________ that provide insight from the author.
What are themes?
100
When the opposite of the readers' and characters' expectations occur.
What is irony?
100
This is where a story takes place.
What is the setting?
100
This is when the narrator uses the term "I" and tells her own story.
What is first person?
200
Persuasive writing asks the reader to either _____________ or ______________ with the author.
What is agree or disagree?
200
using sensory words, similes, metaphors and personification.
What is imagery?
200
The character says one thing but means something else.
What is verbal irony?
200
This is when the story jumps back to the past.
What is a flashback?
200
The narrator is not in the story and uses him and her to describe characters AND does not know their thoughts and feelings.
What is third person?
300
Weak persuasive writing relies too much on this kind of appeal.
What is emotional?
300
Describing a non-human object as thought they are human.
What is personification?
300
This is when the readers know something but the characters don't know it.
What is dramatic irony?
300
Hints as to what will happen in the future of the story.
What is foreshadowing?
300
This is when the narrator speaks directly to the reader using he term you and is almost only used in persuasive writing.
What is second person?
400
Facts, statistics, and expert quotes are all considered this kind of evidence.
What is logical?
400
This is when the sentence describes an inanimate object as doing the action.
What is passive voice?
400
Saying something with humor or attitude that is actually the opposite of how you feel.
What is sarcasm?
400
This is when the author reveals traits about the characters through their actions, description, and words.
What is characterization?
400
The narrator knows everything about all the characters, their thoughts and feelings, but is not part of the story.
What is omniscient?
500
Persuasive writing should state and support the author's __________________.
What is opinion?
500
This is how the reader feels based on the authors word choice, description of setting and action, and imagery.
What is mood?
500
This is when a huge exaggeration is used for figurative language and effect. EX: Her outfit almost killed me.
What is hyperbole?
500
This is the perspective from which the story is told.
What is point of view?