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Writing
Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Story Time 1
Story Time 2
100
Those people who read or hear what you have written.
What is Audience
100
The central idea or message in a piece of writing.
What is Theme
100
A figure of speech in which an idea, object, or animal is given qualities of a person.
What is Personification
100
A person's traits that is determined by their actions.
What is Character Traits
100
To compare in a way that shows the difference.
What is contrast
200
The reason an author writes (to persuade, inform, or entertain).
What is Author's Purpose
200
The angle from which the story is told. This depends on who is telling the story.
What is Point of View
200
Details which help you see, feel, hear, smell, and/or taste a subject.
What is Sensory Detail
200
Where and when a story takes place.
What is Setting
200
Written at the time of the event by someone who was there.
What is First Hand Account
300
Writing which is meant to change the way a reader thinks or acts.
What is Persuasive Writing
300
A figure of speech that makes a comparison using either like or as.
What is Simile
300
The use of words whose sounds make you think of their meaning.
What is Onomatopoeia
300
A point of view where the main character tells the story
What is First Person
300
An account of an event that was not witnessed by the writer.
What is Second Hand Account
400
Writing which tells a story or recalls an experience
What is Narrative Writing
400
A figure of speech that compares two different things without using a word of comparison such as like or as.
What is Metaphor
400
Sequential words using the same beginning sound or letter/
What is Alliteration
400
The narrator tells the story as if he/she is watching it happen.
What is Third Person
400
Words or phrases that allude to a myth.
What is Allusions
500
Writing that explains, such as a report or research paper.
What is Expository Writing
500
A phrase or expression whose meaning cannot be understood from the ordinary meaning of the words.
What is Idiom
500
Makes exaggerated comparison for effect.
What is Hyperbole
500
All of the events that happen in the story
What is Plot
500
Speech or writing that is not poetry or drama; ordinary language. Example: chapter book
What is Prose