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Elements of a story, Part 2
Poetry, again?
Words, words, really?
Literary Terms, take 2
Text structure
100
a writer's opinion on a topic, as expressed in an argument or set of claims
What is author's point of view?
100
the overstatement of factsbeyond what is reasonable or facts beyond what is reasonableor strictly true
What is exaggeration?
100
the selection of words an author uses to convey and develop a work's tone
What is word choice?
100
the use of sarcasm or coaxing joking as a persuasive technique
What is humor?
100
a method of text organization in which actions or events are presented according to time or occurence, going from first to last
What is chronological order?
200
a story perspective in which the narrartive is a character who tells the story
What is first person point of view?
200
a form of figurative language that assigns human attributes and characteristics to nonhuman things
What is personification?
200
the dictionary definition of a word
What is denotation?
200
to use your own words to restate a text
What is paraphrase?
200
a relationship between words, events or ideas in which one thing leads to another
What is cause and effect?
300
the story perspective in which an outside narrator has access to the thoughts, feelings and memories of just the main character
What is third person limited point of view?
300
a poem that tells a story and has a plot, setting and characters
What is narrative poem?
300
basic word parts that have been borrowed from one or the other of these languages
What is Greek and Latin roots?
300
the attitude an author takes toward a selection's topic
What is tone?
300
to identify how two things are the same , how they are different and how they relate to each other.
What is cause and effect?
400
the perspective from which a story is told, usually first person or third
What is narrative point of view?
400
a poem that is commonly fourteen lines long, often with an eight- line section that describes a situation or problem
What is sonnet?
400
the positive, eautral, or negative emotional associationthat a word carries
What is connotation?
400
a reference to well known-real or literary characters or situations that have come to represent an idea
What is allusion?
400
a fact based , not opinion, summary in which the central idea is stated along with supporting details.
What is an objective summary?
500
the story perspective in which an outside narrator knows everything and has access to what every character says, does and thinks
What is third person omniscent point of view?
500
literary writing that is seperated into lines and often stanzas in which a poet uses descriptive language and sound devices
What is poetry?
500
an expression whose meaning can't be understood from the words alone, such as "She cracks me up."
What is an idiom?
500
to determine what sorts of appeals and techniques are being used by the author of a persuasuve text
What is to analyze arguments?
500
the way an author arranges ideas in a text to help readers more easily understand what they are reading, such as compare and contrast, description.
What is text structure?