1. Types of Writing
Expository
Narrative
Persuasive

2. Expository
Explain an event or an concept

3. Narrative
Tells a story (fiction)

4. Persuasive
Try to persuade or convince you to do something

5. Genre
The type of story
Fiction
Non-fiction

6. Non-fiction
True, based on facts
Earthquakes

7. Biography
Story written about someone’s life

8. Autobiography
Life story written by that same person

9. Fiction
Not true, fake, not based in facts

10. Takes place in the future
Science fiction
Takes place in the future

11. Historical fiction
Fiction takes place in the past

12. Realistic fiction
Type of fiction that could be real

13. Legend
Story that keeps growing
The legend of Sleepy Hollow

14. Myth
Story about gods

15. Fable Story that teaches a lesson or moral
Animals are usually the characters

16. Fairy tale
Usually ends with “happily ever after”
Cinderella

17. Fantasy
Story that uses a lot of imagination
Movie examples?

18. Author
The person that writes a story

19. Narrator
Someone who tells the story

20. Draws the pictures or visuals for the story
Illustrator
Draws the pictures or visuals for the story

21. characters
People in the story

22. Setting
Place and time of the story

23. conflict
Problem in the story

24. climax
The most exciting part of the story

25. Theme
What the story is mainly about
Big idea

26. Dialogue
Where characters speak to one another; may often be used to substitute for exposition.
Comics and plays

27. 1st person point of view
Uses I and my and we and ours I We My
Our

28. 3rd person point of view He She They Harold Esperanza
Uses his and her and they He
She
They
Harold
Esperanza

29. Voice
Add some personality to your writing

30. Tone
Tells the mood of the story

31. Visual/Illustration/Image
A picture from the story

32. Summary
Retell the main parts of the story

33. Chronological order/ Sequence
Telling the story in the correct order 1 2 3 4 5

34. Figurative language/Figure of speech
Use of language where the intended meaning differs from the actual literal meaning of the words themselves
Metaphor Simile
Hyperbole Personification
Onomatopoeia Verbal Irony
Oxymoron

35. Metaphor Papa is a mule and won’t understand
Comparison that says one thing is something else
Papa is a mule and won’t understand

36. Simile
Comparison using like or as
He is as blind as a bat

37. That was the fanciest birthday party in the world!
Hyperbole
An exaggeration
That was the fanciest birthday party in the world!

38. Personification
Human traits for something not human

39. Onomatopoeia
Sound effect words
The tic-tac of the clock.

40. Verbal irony
Where the meaning of a specific expression is, or is intended to be, the exact opposite of what the words literally mean. (Sarcasm is a tone of voice that often accompanies verbal irony, but they are not the same thing.)

41. A contradiction in terms.
Oxymoron
A contradiction in terms.
Romeo describes love using several oxymorons, such as “cold fire,” “feather of lead” and “sick health,” to suggest its contradictory nature.

42. Idiom Give different meanings to words and phrases
Hey, Al. I was invited to be a judge for the Miss America Beauty Pageant!
Oh, really? Come on, you're pulling my leg!
No, honestly. Do you really think that I'm trying to fool you with a ridiculous story?
Well, you've told me foolish stories before.
I can assure you that this one is for real.
It’s raining cats and dogs

43. Foreshadowing
Where future events in a story, or perhaps the outcome, are suggested by the author before they happen

44. White-purity Red? Symbolism/Imagery
When words make pictures in your mind
White-purity
Red?

45. Prefix
Re-read
Pre-view
Un-cover
Added to the beginning of the word

46. Suffix Document-ation Publish-er Soft-en Child-ish
Added to the end of the word
Document-ation
Publish-er
Soft-en
Child-ish

47. Synonym
Same meaning
Huge=massive
Strange=bizarre

48. Antonym
Opposites
Colorful ≠ Colorless
Unknown ≠ Famous

49. Rose Homonym Sound the same spelled the same different meaning
The rose is beautiful
Rose
Jesus rose from the death on the third day

50. Homophone Has the same sound but different spelling and meaning Red
Read
Blue
Blew

51. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
Alliteration
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
Repeat the same sound at the beginning of the word.

52. The repetition of vowel sounds
Assonance
The repetition of vowel sounds

53. Analyze
Take apart; give reasons, piece by piece

54. Compare
How are they alike and different?

55. Contrast
What is different?

56. Infer
Draw a conclusion

57. Trace
Copy, follow the steps review.

58. Formulate
Develop or create, come up with a plan

59. Describe
Tell who, what, when, where and how.

60. Explain
Tell what it means. Use who, what, when, where and how.

61. Summarize
Tell it in your own words

62. Evaluate
What do you think? Check it out!

63. Support
Back it up!

64. Predict
What will happen next

65. Predict
Tells what happens next

66. Poetry
Rhyme
Blank verse
Rhyme scheme
Stanza
Meter
Repetition

67. The similarity of ending sounds existing between two words
Rhyme
The similarity of ending sounds existing between two words
Bid me to weep, and I will weep, While I have eyes to see; And having none, yet I will keep A heart to weep for thee.

68. Blank Verse
Non-rhyming poetry, usually written in iambic pentameter. (Shakespeare)

69. Rhyme Scheme
The sequence in which the rhyme occurs. The first end sound is represented as letter a, the second as b…
Bid me to weep, and I will weep, a While I have eyes to see; b And having none, yet I will keep a A heart to weep for thee. b

70. Stanza
A grouping of two or more lines of a poem in terms of length, metrical form, or rhyme scheme

71. Meter
The recurrence of a pattern of stressed and understressed syllables.
Charging down the King’s path steady
/ ~ / ~ / ~ / ~ 8 A
On to meet our death charge ready
/ ~ / ~ / ~ / ~ 8 A

72. Repetition The repeating of words, phrases, lines or stanzas.
Love is a red, red rose.