Nonfiction Terms
This is the way the author uses language to express their feelings
What is Tone?
This is the main events that happen in a story
What is plot?
What is Organizational structure?
Using the 5 sense to paint a picture
Figurative Language
Giving human traits to something non human
What is personification?
This is the way the author uses language to affect the reader's feelings
What is mood?
This is the person that tells the story
What is narrator?
When the author show how two things are similar and how they are different.
What is Compare and Contrast
Use words and language to convince the reader of something
What is Rhetoric?
Comparing to unlike things by using 'like' or 'as'
What is a smilie?
What is anecdote?
This is when you are anticipating what happens next in a story.
What is suspense?
When the author puts ideas in time order
What is chronological order?
Appealing to ethic. Creates credibility and trust.
What is Ethos?
An exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
This is why the author writes something
What is author's purpose?
This is when the author creates emotional strain on the reader
What is Tension?
Appeal to emotion. Creates an emotional response in the reader
What is Pathos?
Term for words that sound like a sound
What is an Onomatopoeia
The main idea or though of a passage
What is thesis?
When the author gives traits, either directly or indirectly, about a character
Characterization
Appeal to Logic. Uses logic, reasoning, facts, data etc.
What is Logos?
When two words contradict themselves
What is paradox.