Poetry
The author of a poem.
What is a poet?
This is the academic term for "storyteller."
What is a narrator?
These words are intended to tell the stage personnel what to do and how things should look; they are often italicized and enclosed in parentheses or brackets.
What are stage directions?
This term means "the WHOLE passage."
What is selection?
This term means "the side the author is taking in an argument."
What is position?
Language that appeals to the five senses (seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting, and smelling).
What is sensory language?
A hint or clue about an important event that is up ahead.
This is whenever a character speaks.
What is dialogue?
This is the structural unit that has the selection's hook and thesis/controlling idea.
What is the introduction?
This is the sentence that clearly states what the writer is going to argue in the paper.
What is the claim?
The character who is talking in the poem.
What is the speaker?
This point of view shows the audience a character's opinions, feelings, and thoughts so that the reader can connect with the character.
What is subjective point of view?
To uncover something that is hidden but significant
What is to reveal?
The five major types are cause/effect, compare/contrast, problem/solution, description/list, sequence/order.
What are organizational patterns?
These are the arguments against the writer's position.
What are alternative viewpoints?
The way the words on the page make the reader feel.
What is mood?
These three terms reference how the setting moves the story toward the resolution of the conflict.
What is "advance the plot"?
This is the life-lesson taught by a literary work.
What is theme?
In informational texts, they most often are to inform, to instruct, to emphasize/highlight, and to explain.
What is author's purpose?
This is the best type of evidence in an argument.
What are facts?
This type of non-literal language helps a reader see a common object or experience from a new angle, often through comparisons.
What is figurative language?
This word means to settle a conflict.
What is resolve?
This is the main difference between drama and a fictional narrative.
What is "it is written for the stage"?
These sentences usually start a body paragraph and help the reader understand the paragraph's main/central idea.
What is a topic sentence?
This is the learned judgment of a respected person in a field.
What is expert opinion/testimony?