1. Literary Terms & Word Parts
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Literary Terms & Word Parts

2. Biography
The story of a person’s life written by someone else

3. Autobiography A story someone writes about his/her own life
Nonfiction #TrueStory

4. Tone Tone - The writer’s attitude toward what he/she is writing about
A writer’s tone is revealed through
his/her word choices

5. Denotation
Denotation- The dictionary definition; the literal meaning of a word
The denotation of the word elderly is someone who is “rather old.” If you look up a word in the dictionary, you will find its denotation.

6. Connotation
Connotation- The feelings and emotions associated with a word, usually positive or negative
The word old has a more negative connotation than the word elderly.
(Old = - / Elderly = +)

7. Word Parts: Bio = life (Example: Biology is the study of life.)
Auto = self
(Example: If something is automatic, it runs itself.)
Graph = Printed or Written
(Example: If Justin Beiber gives you his autograph,
you are getting a record of his personally written
signature.)