Fiction
The time and location in which a story takes place
What is the setting?
A text where the author is author is presenting their side of a topic with evidence.
What is argumentative?
A text written to be performed
What is drama?
Sounds that are turned into words
What is an onomatopoeia?
An affix added to the beginning of a root word to change the meaning.
What is a prefix?
A character in conflict with the main character or protangonist.
What is an antagonist?
A persuasive technique that does not rely on sound or reasonable reasoning.
What is fallacy?
Unspoken part of a drama that tells the characters where to go and how to act.
What are stage directions?
Very descriptive writing that helps you form a mental picture or image in your head.
What is imagery?
An affix added to the end of a root word to change the meaning.
What is a suffix?
The ending of the narrative, when the conflict is resolved.
What is the resolution?
A text where the author is trying to convince the reader of something.
What is persuasive text?
The sequence of events in fiction or drama.
What is plot?
Compares two unlike things by saying something is like something else.
What is a metaphor?
A word, phrase, or sentence in a text around an unfamiliar word that helps you identify the word's meaning.
What is a context clue?
When a character struggles with something outside of themselves.
What is external conflict?
A statement that many people assume to be true, though it may or may not actually be true.
What is a commonplace assertion?
A exchange of speech between two or more characters.
What is dialogue?
An exaggeration that is usually humorous.
What is a hyperbole?
Expressions that have "hidden" messages. Do not literally mean what they say.
What is an idiom?
A character's speech to himself that helps reveal their inner thoughts.
What is a soliloquoy?
A statement that can be verified with facts, observations, reliable sources, or expert findings.
What is a factual claim?
A long speech given by one character.
What is monologue?
Language used to appeal to one or more of the five senses.
What is sensory language?
A word relationship that compares two dissimilar things.
What is an analogy?