Writing Techniques
Restating the meaning using different words.
What is paraphrasing?
A device where an inanimate object is given a human-like quality?
What is personification?
The author's particular attitude, either stated or implied in the writing.
What is tone?
The type of work, usually characterized by form, technique, or content.
What is genre?
Picture or other image within a text.
What is a graphic feature?
Marking a text with notes and/or comments.
What is annotating?
Language not intended to be taken literally but is layered with meaning.
What if figurative language?
The atmosphere or feeling created by the writer.
What is mood?
The sustained interest created by building events and delaying the outcome.
What is suspense?
What is print/text feature?
To reduce larger texts to their essential points and main ideas.
What is summarizing?
An intentional and extreme exaggeration for emphasis or effect.
What is hyperbole?
The reason an author writes about a particular topic.
What is the author's purpose?
Literary works focused on the expression of feelings or ideas through a distinctives style that is often rhythmical.
What is poetry?
A technique that is used to influence or persuade an audience.
What is rhetorical device?
Paraphrased or directly quoted details from a text that supports a reader's claim, thought, inference, or analysis about the text.
What is text evidence?
"Teacher Tanya teaches."
What is alliteration?
An expressive literary piece written in first person that centers on a particular event in the author's life that may contain vivid descriptions.
What is a personal narrative?
Literary works often written in a stage play format which includes dialogue and stage directions that is intended to be perfomed.
What is drama?
An incorrect or problematic argument that is not based on sound reasoning.
What is logical fallacy?
The way an author constructs their ideas and provides supporting details.
What is an organizational pattern?
The mad cat ran.
What is assonance?
Intentional use of organizational patterns, text and graphic features, syntax, devices, and diction to create an effective written work?
What is author's craft?
Factual
What is non-fiction?
To combine elements and parts for a coherent whole.
What is synthesize?