Writing about real people and real events.
What is non fiction?
Giving characters such as animals or objects the characteristics or qualities of humans.
What is personification?
A comparison using the words like or as.
What is a similie?
The way a writer develops a character qualities and personal traits.
What is characterization?
This is the good guy in a story.
What is protagonist?
A person's life story, written by that person.
What is autobiography?
A kind of writing that is meant to influence the reader to think a certain way.
What is persuasion?
A comparison that does not use like or as.
What is a metaphor?
The characters way of thinking, behaving, or speaking.
What is character traits?
This is the highest point of interest or suspense in a story.
What is climax?
A person's life story written by someone else.
What is biography?
When a word has a positive association.
What is positive connotation?
A phrase that has a different meaning than its words really mean.
What is an idiom?
Clues or hints that a writer gives about something that has not yet happened.
What is foreshadowing?
The struggle of the main character against himself another person or nature.
What is conflict?
Writing that tells a story.
What is a narrative?
Repeating sounds whose beginning consonant sounds are the same.
What is alliteration?
After he left the dentist his smile was as bright as the sun.
What is a similie.
A look into the past at some point in a story.
What is a flashback.
The conversation among characters in a story.
What is dialogue?
A short story or poem with a moral, often with animals who act like humans.
What is a fable?
Using words that sound like their meaning.
What is onomatopoeia?
Exaggeration used for dramatic effect
What is hyperbole
The first stage of plot when the characters and setting are introduced.
What is the exposition?