Literary Terms
Literature created from the imagination.
What is fiction?
This word best completes the sentence: I enjoy studying ____________.
a. mathemetics
b. mathematics.
c. mathamatics
What is B. mathematics.?
The main story; a series of events.
What is Plot?
This type of text structure is when one event happens after another in an arrangement of time.
What is Chronological?
Name the five types of story structure.
What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
Prose writing that is based on facts, real events, and real people, such as biography or history.
What is non-fiction?
Hot peppers are bad for my ______ system. Choose the proper spelling. A. dijestive B. digestive C. digestiv D. dijustive
What is B. digestive?
The struggle or clash between opposing characters, forces or emotions.
What is conflict?
This type of text examines the similarities and differences between two or more people, events, concepts, ideas, etc.
What is Compare and Contrast?
Name the five steps in the writing process.
What is prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing.
An implied discrepancy between what is said and what is meant.
What is irony?
Martin Luther King spent his life fighting people's _____. Pick the proper word to describe MLK's work. A. prejudusses C. prejudices B. prejooduces D. prejudesses
What is C. prejudices?
An educated guess based on information.
What is inference?
This structure presents the causal relationship between an specific event, idea, or concept and the events, ideas, or concept that follow.
What is Cause and Effect?
What are the three types of Author's Purpose?
What is to inform, persuade, and entertain.
Is the emotional attitude the author takes towards his/her subject
What is mood?
Complete with the correct spelling. He used to _________ about becoming a chef.
a. fantsize
b. fantacize
c. fantasize
What is C. fantasize?
Result
What is effect?
This text structure gives readers a chronological of events or a list of steps in a procedure
What is Sequence?
Explain what is a Proper Noun.
What is a special one-of-a kind person, place, or thing that start with a capital letter.
The attitude a writer takes towards a subject or character: serious, humorous, sarcastic, ironic, satirical, tongue-in-cheek, solemn, objective.
What is tone?
The _________ of the donors came as a surprise.
a. genrosity
b. generosity
c. genrusity
What is B. generosity?
To suggest; communicate
What is convey?
This type of structure sets up a problem or problems, explains the solution, and then discusses the effects of the solution.
What is Problem and Solution?
Explain the objective for today.
What is SWBAT identify and answer questions about main ideas, vocabulary, and the writing process in during an informal assessment.