Literary Devices
Non-Fiction Texts
Story Structure
On Demand Writing
Story Elements
100
A comparison using like or as
What is a Simile
100
A way of telling the similarities and differences in text
What is compare and contrast
100
The order of a story as in the geographic parts
What is plot
100
the number of paragraphs you should have in a 90 minute ODW assessment.
What is 5
100
An illusion to the future of the story
What is foreshadowing
200
Words which imitate the sound they refer to.
What is onomatopoeia
200
A relationship that shows how a conflict or issue is answered in text
What is problem/solution.
200
The first part of a story that introduced the character, setting, and sometimes the conflict
What is exposition
200
The number of examples you should have for every body paragraph.
What is 2
200
A conflict in a story that happens exclusively inside a character's mind
What is internal conflict.
300
When non-human things have human qualities.
What is personification
300
To capture all the most important parts of the original story, but express them in a much shorter space, and in the readers own words.
What is Summarize
300
The part of a story in which the conflict begins to become resolved
What is resolution
300
Grabs the attention of the audience using a rhetorical question, interesting fact, statistic, anecdote, or bold statement.
What is a hook
300
The main character in the story that is antagonized
What is protagonist
400
Saying the opposite of what you mean.
What is irony
400
Arranged in or according to order of time or events.
What is chronological order.
400
The part of a story in which conflict is introduced, builds up to the most exciting part of the story.
What is rising action
400
If you do not address and offer a solution to this element in your ODW you will NOT score a 3 or 4.
What is a counterargument/counterclaim
400
A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization on the sentence and global levels.
What is tone
500
An exaggeration
What is hyperbole
500
Point of view in which the narrator is a character or an observer; uses I
What is first person
500
The high point of a story or piece of literature that the protagonist makes a decision
What is climax
500
The most important area on the rubric for ODW, the element that will influence your score the most.
What is audience and purpose
500
The way that the reader feels when he reads a story
What is mood