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Types of Writing
ExpositoryNarrativePersuasive
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Expository
Explain an event or an concept
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Narrative
Tells a story (fiction)
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Persuasive
Try to persuade or convince you to do something
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Genre
The type of story
Fiction
Non-fiction
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Non-fiction
True, based on facts
Earthquakes
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Biography
Story written about someone’s life
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Autobiography
Life story written by that same person
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Fiction
Not true, fake, not based in facts
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Science fiction
Takes place in the future
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Historical fiction
Fiction takes place in the past
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Realistic fiction
Type of fiction that could be real
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Legend
Story that keeps growing
The legend of Sleepy Hollow
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Myth
Story about gods
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Fable
Story that teaches a lesson or moralAnimals are usually the characters
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Fairy tale
Usually ends with “happily ever after”
Cinderella
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Fantasy
Story that uses a lot of imagination
Movie examples?
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Author
The person that writes a story
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Narrator
Someone who tells the story
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Illustrator
Draws the pictures or visuals for the story
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characters
People in the story
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Setting
Place and time of the story
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conflict
Problem in the story
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climax
The most exciting part of the story
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Theme
What the story is mainly about
Big idea
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Dialogue
Where characters speak to one another; may often be used to substitute for exposition.
Comics and plays
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1st person point of view
Uses I and my and we and ours
I WeMyOur
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3rd person point of view
Uses his and her and they
HeSheTheyHaroldEsperanza
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Voice
Add some personality to your writing
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Tone
Tells the mood of the story
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Visual/Illustration/Image
A picture from the story
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Summary
Retell the main parts of the story
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Chronological order/ Sequence
Telling the story in the correct order
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Figurative language/Figure of speech
Use of language where the intended meaning differs from the actual literal meaning of the words themselves
Metaphor SimileHyperbole PersonificationOnomatopoeia Verbal IronyOxymoron
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Metaphor
Comparison that says one thing is something else
Papa is a mule and won’t understand
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Simile
Comparison using like or as
He is as blind as a bat
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Hyperbole
An exaggerationThat was the fanciest birthday party in the world!
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Personification
Human traits for something not human
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Onomatopoeia
Sound effect words
The tic-tac of the clock.
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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.)
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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.
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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
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Foreshadowing
Where future events in a story, or perhaps the outcome, are suggested by the author before they happen
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Symbolism/Imagery
When words make pictures in your mind
White-purity
Red?
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Added to the beginning of the word
Re-readPre-viewUn-cover
Prefix
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Suffix
Added to the end of the word
Document-ationPublish-erSoft-enChild-ish
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Synonym
Same meaning
Huge=massiveStrange=bizarre
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Antonym
Opposites
Colorful ≠ ColorlessUnknown ≠ Famous
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Homonym
Sound the same spelled the same different meaning
Rose
The rose is beautiful
Jesus rose from the death on the third day
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Homophone
Has the same sound but different spelling and meaning
RedRead
BlueBlew
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Alliteration
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
Repeat the same sound at the beginning of the word.
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Assonance
The repetition of vowel sounds
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Analyze
Take apart; give reasons, piece by piece
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Compare
How are they alike and different?
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Contrast
What is different?
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Infer
Draw a conclusion
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Trace
Copy, follow the steps review.
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Formulate
Develop or create, come up with a plan
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Describe
Tell who, what, when, where and how.
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Explain
Tell what it means. Use who, what, when, where and how.
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Summarize
Tell it in your own words
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Evaluate
What do you think? Check it out!
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Support
Back it up!
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Predict
What will happen next
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Predict
Tells what happens next
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Poetry
RhymeBlank verseRhyme schemeStanzaMeterRepetition
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Rhyme
The similarity of ending sounds existing between two wordsBid 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.
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Blank Verse
Non-rhyming poetry, usually written in iambic pentameter. (Shakespeare)
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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, aWhile I have eyes to see; b And having none, yet I will keep a A heart to weep for thee. b
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Stanza
A grouping of two or more lines of a poem in terms of length, metrical form, or rhyme scheme
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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
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Repetition
The repeating of words, phrases, lines or stanzas.
Love is a red, red rose.
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