Types of Writing
Written works, especially those considered of superior or lasting artistic merit.
What is Literature?
Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of (something, especially information), typically for purposes of explanation and interpretation
Literary device that writers use to structure what happens in a story. (The sequence of events in a story).
The whole system and structure of a language or of languages in general, usually taken as consisting of syntax and morphology (including inflections) and sometimes also phonology and semantics
What is Grammar?
Refers to the spectators, listeners, and intended readers of a writing, performance, or speech.
What is Audience?
A spoken or written account of connected events; a story.
What is Narrative?
The careful, sustained interpretation of a passage of a text.
What is Close Reading?
The central, deeper meaning of a written work.
What is Theme?
A combination of words within a sentence that is comprised of a subject and a predicate.
What is a Clause?
The act or process of creating something over a period of time.
What is Development?
A written factual account of somebody’s life.
What is Memoir?
When logical deductions are made based on premises assumed to be true
What is Inference?
A literary device that is used step-by-step in literature to highlight and explain the details about a character in a story.
What is Characterization?
The conventional ways in which words or phrases are used, spoken, or written
What is Standard Usage?
A person's reason for writing, such as to inform, entertain, explain, or persuade
What is Purpose?
Nonfiction writing, written with the intention of informing the reader about a specific topic.
What is Informative Text?
An argument about the work that expresses a writer's personal perspective, interpretation, judgment, or critical evaluation of the work.
What is Literary Analysis?
An interruption of the chronological sequence (as of a film or literary work) of an event of earlier occurrence.
What is Flashback?
A short form of literary composition based on a single subject matter.
What is an Essay?
Quote (a passage, book, or author) as evidence for or justification of an argument or statement, especially in a scholarly work
What is Cite? (Or citation)
All writing that is based in reality and has been written with specific attention to the craft of writing, using literary techniques to talk about subjects that are not made up
What is Literary Nonfiction?
Using specific words/phrases from an already published author that helps to prove a statement or to lend credibility to an idea.
What is Textual Evidence?
A particular order in which related events, movements, or things follow each other
What is Sequence?
The way authors organize information in text.
What is Text Structure?
A story structure in which the writer includes two or more separate narratives linked by a common character, event, or theme
What is Parallel Plots?