Body paragraphs are usually constructed around these larger elements, present within ALL texts.
What is a Literary Feature?
100
Authors tend to use this when they want to make their text sound more personal. But it can be extremely limiting!
What is the FIRST PERSON POV?
100
You need to do this whenever to identify something in a text.
What is QUALIFYING?
100
Descriptive passages that include several different human senses.
What is IMAGERY?
100
This is the overall layout, or how a piece is formatted.
What is the STRUCTURE?
200
Texts are often classified into certain categories. For example: a narrative, an article, a poem or a song.
What is the GENRE?
200
Authors use this POV when they want to sound more formal, but sometimes, we can see too much!
What is the THIRD PERSON POV?
200
The TONE of a piece is always derived from how this sounds.
What is the POV?
200
Authors love to use these little techniques to affect the TONE and the MOOD of a piece.
What are STYLISTIC DEVICES?
200
This type of writing uses longer indented paragraphs, dialogue, and is usually used for telling stories or narratives.
What is PROSE?
300
Authors tend to produce texts with a specific intention, or they are trying to illicit a certain response in their reader.
What is the PURPOSE?
300
This POV sounds a little strange, almost like someone is giving orders.
What is the SECOND PERSON POV?
300
When authors use specific words to make the tone of their piece unique.
What is DICTION?
300
Where and when a particular piece is taking place. Not always super clear.
What is the SETTING?
300
This type of writing uses shorter paragraphs, longer sentences, no indents, a subtitle and a by-line.
What is an ARTICLE?
400
A group of people which are targeted by author of a text, either through their publication and their chosen language.
What is the AUDIENCE?
400
An author infuses their writing with this, almost as if they are trying to influence your thinking, or convince you that their opinion is the only logical opinion.
What is BIAS?
400
When authors love to show off their descriptive skills by using consecutive consonant sounds, in two or more words that are close together.
What is ALLITERATION
400
When an author compares one thing to another.
What is a METAPHOR?
400
Songs, poems and sometimes old plays use this style of writing.
What is VERSE?
500
This is the general idea or topic around which a text is built.
What is the THEME?
500
When an author provides you with conflicting images or ideas, that just don't seem to make sense together, but at the same time, they do...
What is JUXTAPOSITION?
500
These are like metaphors, but they're not.
What is a SIMILIE?
500
A short, brief reference to a person place or thing.
What is an ALLUSION?
500
When advertisements, pamphlets and posters like to play with the size and colour of their fonts, to influence potential customers.