Literary Terms
The writer's attitude toward the subject matter or audience of a literary work
What is tone?
In this type of writing you might explain or describe how something works.
What is explanatory/expository/informative?
This type of sentence has an independent clause combined with a dependent clause.
What is a complex sentence?
This is side of the argument you are against.
What is a counterclaim?
This can be in either 1st, 2nd, or 3rd.
What is author's POV?
a narrative device in which a storyteller gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.
What is Foreshadowing?
In an essay, this is referred to as the "stimuli".
What is text/passage?
This part of speech links compound subject, predicates, and sentences together.
What is a conjunction?
This is your position on the argument.
What is a claim?
This is a type of figurative language where the author repeats consonant sounds such as "She slithered sneakily across the floor."
What is alliteration?
a narrative technique that interrupts that chronological sequence, the front line action or “present” line of the story, to show readers a scene that unfolded in the past.
What is a flashback?
In this type of writing, you must include dialogue, characters, setting, and a plot.
What is a narrative?
This type of punctuation can be used to set off a list.
What is a colon?
This is what you use to support your claim and reasons.
What is text-evidence?
This is the reason why the author writes a text.
What is author's purpose?
expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
What is irony?
In this type of writing, you state a claim and support it with reasons and evidence.
What is argumentative?
This type of punctuation can be used to combine two independent clauses.
What is a semi-colon?
This is what you call the part of an argument where you prove the counterclaim wrong.
What is a rebuttal?
This literary device uses the 5 senses to show instead of tell.
What is imagery?
A type of figurative language or literary device designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; It may reference something from classical literature, history, mythology, ect.
What is an allusion?
What three things belong in an introduction?
What is a hook, background info, and a thesis statement?
Correct the sentence below by adding a semicolon and the word "therefore".
"I love going to the zoo so I go to the zoo every day."
"I love going to the zoo; therefore, I go to the zoo every day."
In an essay, this is referred to as the "task".
What is topic/prompt
This is the sentence at the end of the introductory paragraph that tells readers what you essay will be about.
What is a thesis statement?