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Sentence types
Story elements
Literary terms
Writing types
More story terms
100
The balloon drifted away.
What is a simple sentence
100
The people in a story
What are characters?
100
A physical object standing for something
What is a symbol?
100
Writing that tells a story
What is a narrative?
100
Time and place of a story
What is the setting?
200
Tom and Jerry are cartoon characters.
What is a simple sentence (with 2 subjects)
200
The action in a story
What is plot?
200
Logic and style used in effective writing
What is rhetoric?
200
Writing to explain something
What is expository writing?
200
The main "lesson" or message of the writing
What is the theme?
300
We will wash and paint the bedroom walls.
What is a simple sentence (with two verbs).
300
The highpoint of the story
What is the climax?
300
Clues for what is going to come in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
300
Writing used to convince audience of something
What is persuasion?
300
The person who tells the story
What is the narrator?
400
He is my friend, but I really think he is being rude.
What is a compound sentence?
400
Information about the characters, plot, and setting
What is the exposition?
400
Stating something as less than it really is
What is understatement?
400
Type of writing in Of Mice and Men
What is narrative writing?
400
What is third person limited?
What is point of view?
500
The snow fell rapidly when the temperatures dropped.
What is a complex sentence?
500
The conclusion to a story-tying things together
What is the resolution?
500
Word used that has an emotional meaning beyond the dictionary definition
What is connotation?
500
An opinion article written in the newspaper
What is persuasive writing?
500
The attitude of the author
What is tone?