Writing process
essay vocabulary
Literary devices
intermediate Lit devices
Advanced Lit devices
100

In this part of the process you share your work with the public.

What is Publishing?

100

This is an opinion stated as fact

What is a claim?

100

comparing two things using like or as.

What is a Simile?

100

Giving human qualities to animals or inanimate objects

Personification

100

A state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to expectations usually with an amusing effect

What is Irony?

200

In this part of the writing process you make changes and corrections to your work.

What is Editing?

200

This is a thesis statement that lists out its main reasons for its claim one by one.

What is a closed ended thesis statement?
200

Comparing two things without using like or as

What is a Metaphor?

200

A joke or play on words especially one with a punchline.

What is a pun?

200

An expression with a different meaning from the literal definition of the words

What is an Idiom?

300

In this part of the writing process you get your prompt, brainstorm, and plan what you will write/create.

What is Pre-writing?

300

This kind of thesis briefly summarizes reasons for its claims or give one general reason for its argument.

What is an open ended thesis?

300

Language that uses the 5 senses to describe something or paint a picture

What is Imagery?

300

Using ideas and objects to represent other things

What is Symbolism?

300

When sentences sound alike and have the same structure.

What is Parallelism?

400

This is your first attempts at writing or creating your work.

What is Drafting?

400

This kind of thesis addresses an argument against its claim and proposes a counter.

What is a counter-argument thesis?

400

Words that represent sounds

What is an Onomatopoeia?

400

Repeating the same first consonant sound in a sentence.

What is Alliteration?

400

When the author presents a reoccurring theme or idea in a piece literature or art.

What is Motif?

500

This part of the process involves looking over your work critically for things to correct and areas to improve.

What is Revising?

500

This is a paragraph writing method which uses evidence by first introducing a claim/topic sentence then citing a quote or paraphrasing and concludes with an explanation or analysis.

What is ICE method?

What is CQA method?

500

An obvious exaggeration for emphasis

What is Hyperbole?

500

Referencing something from from history or culture in a literary work

What is Allusion?

500

When the author subtly leaves the reader hints as to what is going to happen later in a story.

What is Foreshadowing.