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Literary Devices & Vocabulary
"What Period Were You Referring To?"
100
This is a clear description of people, places, objects, or events using appropriate details. An effective description will contain sufficient and varied elaboration of details to communicate a sense of the subject being described.
What is descriptive writing?
100
writing to describe a series of events or a process in some sort of order. Usually, this order is based on time. Example: Write a paragraph outlining how a person becomes the prime minister.
What is time sequence essay writing?
100
is a short account of some aspect of the writer's life. It may include a brief description of the writer's experiences,hobbies,interests and some memorable events.
What is autobiographical essay?
100
In literature are common ideas that appear in plays, poems and stories – even though they were written decades or even centuries apart.
What is universal theme?
100
This is a religious and philosophical movement that developed during the late 1820s and '30s in the Eastern region of the United States as a protest against the general state of spirituality and, in particular, the state of intellectualism.
What is the Transcendentalism period?
200
This is a form of nonfiction writing that encourages careful word choice, the development of logical arguments, and a cohesive summary. Young children can be guided through a series of simple steps in an effort to develop their persuasive writing skills.
What is persuasive writing?
200
shows how two subjects are similar; a contrast shows how two subjects are different. People compare and contrast in both writing and life.
What is a comparison/contrast essay?
200
This may include a person's experiences, and/or thoughts or feelings, including comment on current events outside the writer's direct experience.
What is personal journal?
200
a thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract.
What is symbol?
200
A religious reform movement in the late 16th and 17th centuries that sought to “purify” the Church of England of remnants of the Roman Catholic “popery” that the Puritans claimed had been retained after the religious settlement reached early in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.
What is the Puritanism period?
300
This is the story (fiction or non-fiction) told and the order in which it is told. Sometimes, there is a narrator, a character or series of characters, who tell the story. Sometimes, as with most non-fiction, the author himself/herself in the narrator.
What is narrative writing?
300
is an essay that describes a problem and discusses possible solutions to the problem.
What is problem solution essay writing?
300
An article in a publication expressing the opinion of its editors or publishers.
What is editorial commentary?
300
Is the act or process of deriving logical conclusions from premises known or assumed to be true. The conclusion drawn is also called an idiomatic. The laws are studied in the field of logic.
What are inferences?
300
was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.
What is the Romanticism period?
400
This is a type of writing that is used to explain, describe, give information, or inform. The text is organized around one topic and developed according to a pattern or combination of patterns.
What is expository writing?
400
You need to determine a scenario in which one action or event caused certain effects to occur. Then, explain what took place and why! This essay allows us to identify patterns and explain why things turned out the way that they did.
What is cause and effect essay writing?
400
It's the writer's job to convince the reader to accept a particular point of view or take a specific action. Persuasive essays require good research, awareness of the reader's biases, and a solid understanding of both sides of the issue.
What is persuasive essay writing?
400
is a source of information about a word that helps readers understand the word. This word or phrase offers insight, either directly or indirectly, into the word's meaning.
What are context clues?
400
Is an American realist modern art movement that was popular from 1920s through the 1950s in the United States. The artistic focus was from artists who shunned city life, and rapidly developing technological advances, to create scenes of rural life.
What is the Regionalism period?
500
the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
What is irony?
500
This is the arrangement of things following one after another in time
What is chronological order essay writing?
500
An annual calendar containing important dates and statistical information such as astronomical data and tide tables.
What is an almanac?
500
To indulge in enjoyable recollection of past events.
What is reminisce?
500
The belief that reality has an intrinsically logical structure. Because of this, these individuals argue that certain truths exist and that the intellect can directly grasp these truths.
What is the Rationalism period?