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PERSUASION
ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE
STRUCTURE AND ORGANIZATION
NARRATIVES
POTPOURRI
100
Authors of persuasive writings choose words that evoke an emotional reaction from the reader. This reaction is the word's ______.
What is CONNOTATION?
100
When the opposite of what a reader expects to happen, does happen
What is IRONY?
100
When one event leads to another
What is CAUSE AND EFFECT?
100
This type of narrator is also a character in the story.
What is FIRST PERSON?
100
The author's message to the reader about life or human nature - usually not stated in the text
What is the THEME?
200
The group of people (by age and gender) that an ad is written for
What is TARGET AUDIENCE?
200
When the author provides clues to something that will happen later in a narrative.
What is FORESHADOWING?
200
When events are written in the order in which they happened.
What is CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER?
200
Two characters speaking to one another - shown in quotation marks
What is DIALOGUE?
200
If an EOG question is asking about the IMPACT on PLOT, you should be looking for this
What is a CHANGE in the action/events?
300
A widely held and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or group or people.
What is a STEREOTYPE?
300
A concrete image or word that represents an idea.
What is a SYMBOL?
300
A poem is made up of these groups of lines
What are STANZAS?
300
This narrator is outside of the story and shadows the main character's thoughts and actions.
What is THIRD PERSON LIMITED?
300
When several words begin with the same consonant sound in a line of poetry or sentence in prose.
What is ALLITERATION?
400
This type of newspaper writing is written to persuade and contains bias
What is an EDITORIAL?
400
When the story jumps back to the past in order to inform the reader of a significant detail
What is FLASHBACK?
400
When a piece begins with a situation that needs to be resolved and is followed by possible ways to solve it.
What is PROBLEM-SOLUTION?
400
The setting of a novel often creates this feeling the reader gets as he/she reads
What is the MOOD?
400
The perspective from which an article, editorial, story, or poem is written/told
What is POINT OF VIEW?
500
This belief held by a person cannot be proven true or false
What is an OPINION?
500
An object or idea that repeats itself throughout a literary work
What is a MOTIF?
500
When a piece of writing show similarities and differences between two things, people, ideas
What is COMPARE-CONTRAST?
500
The turning point of a story
What is the CLIMAX?
500
Words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation
What is FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE?