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Writing Techniques
Writing Terms
Elements of Literature
Literature Terms
Potpourri
100
The author goes back to an earlier time in the story and explains something that will help the reader understand the whole story better.
What is flashback?
100
The central idea in a piece of writing.
What is theme?
100
Appeals to the senses. It is written so that the reader can literally hear, feel, taste, touch, smell, see what the author is describing.
What is sensory language/imagery?
100
A figure of speech that compares things using like or as.
What is simile?
100
The use of any element of language more than once. It could take place with a sound, word, phrase, or grammatical structure. It is used to stress important ideas and feelings, and to create memorable sound effects.
What is repetition?
200
The writer's hints and clues about what is going to happen in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
200
Words or phrases which help tie ideas together.
What is transitions?
200
The feelings a reader gets from a story; sad, happy, peaceful.
What is mood?
200
When an author uses an object to stand for an idea.
What is symbolism?
200
A long fictional story whose length is usually somewhere between 100 and 500 pages. It uses all the elements of storytelling: plot, character, setting, theme, and point of view.
What is novel?
300
A figure of speech in which non human things (an idea, object, or animal) are given human characteristics. A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human thoughts, feelings, or attitudes
What is personification?
300
The writer's attitude toward the subject.
What is tone?
300
Identify the five parts of the plot line.
What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?
300
Identify the 4 types of sentences.
What is declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, and imperative?
300
A story written about a person’s life, but it is written by another person.
What is biography?
400
An exaggeration or overstatement used for emphasis: "My dad almost died when he saw my grades."
What is hyperbole?
400
A prose account that is basically made up rather than actually being true
What is fiction?
400
Conflict is the "problem" in the story. Identify three types of conflict.
What is person vs. person, person vs. nature, person vs. self, person vs. society, or person vs. fate?
400
A lesson that is learned at the end of reading.
What is moral?
400
The recurrence of initial consonant sound. “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.”
What is alliteration?
500
Compares two different things without using like or as.
What is metaphor?
500
A character in literature who opposes, or goes against, the main character.
What is antagonist?
500
Expressions that are not literally true. They create fresh and original descriptions. Examples are similes, metaphors, irony, personification, etc.
What is figurative language?
500
Identify the five text structures.
What is sequential, cause/effect, compare/contrast, descriptive, and ?
500
The series of related events that make up a story…the introduction is known as exposition, the complications are known as rising action, the most exciting part is known as climax, the beginning of resolving the problems is known as falling action, and when the problems are solved or the story is closed, this is known as the resolution. AND The reason or cause that a character behaves a certain way.
What is plot or plot line?