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| Mood | What is the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage? |
| Moral | What do we call a lesson taught by a literary work, such as a fable? |
| Myth | What type of fictional tale explains the actions of gods or heroes or the origins of elements of nature? |
| Narrative or Narration | Writing that tells a story, such as a novel, short story, biography, or history, is called? |
| Narrator | The speaker or character who tells a story is called the ? |
| Non-fiction | Name the term used to name prose writing that presents and explains ideas or that tells about real people, places, objects, or events? |
| Opinion | What do we call judgment or impression that is necessarily based on fact? |
| Dialect | What term refers to a form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group? |
| Poetry | What literary genre may be divided into stanzas? |
| Non-standard English | How do we classify language that contains colloquialisms and slang? |
| Point of View | The perspective from which a story is told? |
| Prose | An ordinary form of written language that includes novels or short stories. Writing that is not poetry, drama, or song? |
| Purpose | A reason for a composition? |
| Rhyme | The repetition of sounds at the end of words? |
| Scene | Smaller sections that are divided from acts in plays? |
| Senses | Any written material that utilizes sight, sound, taste, smell, and texture? |
| Setting | The time and place of the action? |
| Simple Sentence | Sentence that contains one independent clause and no subordinate clause? |
| Speech | Words that are spoken? |
| Stage Direction | Notes included in a drama to describe how the work is to be performed and staged? |
| Standard English | The dialect most accepted in schools and businesses. It follows rules and conventions? |
| Strategies | Skills in managing or planning? |
| Structure | The arrangement of all the parts of a whole? |
| Style | The way in which something is expressed in writing? |
| Techniques | Any method of doing a thing? |
| Theme | A central message, concern, or insight into life that is expressed in a literary work? |
| Verse | A stanza or other short subdivision of a poem? |
| Word Choice | The selection of words to enhance meaning? |
| Editorial | What is a form of writing in which the author states a point of view/opinion and backs it up with facts? |
| Essay | What is a short nonfiction work which may describe, inform, or persuade? |
| Fable | What is a folktale, usually with animal characters, that teaches a lesson or moral? |
| Fairy Tale | What is a folktale in which the hero, who is good, succeeds with outside help? |
| Fiction | What is prose writing that tells about imaginary characters and events? |
| Folktale | What is a story that was composed orally and then was passed from person to person? |
| Image | What is a word or phrase that appeals to one of the five senses? |
| Imagery | What is the use of words or phrases that appeal to one or more of the five senses? |
| Jargon | What is a specific language used by a particular profession, sport, or interest? |
| Informal English | What is the English you use most often when talking with friends and relatives? |
| Compound Sentence | A sentence that has more than one independent clause and no subordinate clauses is a ? |
| Complex Sentence | A sentence with one independent clause and at least one subordinate clause is a ? |
| Compound/Complex Sentence | A sentence with more than one independent clause and at least one subordinate clause is a ? |
| Audience | The person or people who will read what you wrote is your ? |
| Brackets | Punctuation used to enclose words, figures, etc. such as those used for an explanation? |
| Compare | To examine in order to observe similarities? |
| Culture | The ideas, customs, skills, arts, etc. of a given people? |
| Definition | A statement of the meaning of a word? |
| Diction | A way of speaking or pronouncing words? |
| Dictionary Entry | A dictionary word with its definitions, parts of speech, pronunciation, etc. is the ? |
