Literary Terms
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- Convention
- Includes grammer correct usage, spelling, capitalization
- Grammer
- Structure and rules of a language
- Expository
- Writing that explanes or informs - Compares / contrasts
- Thesis Statement
- The controlling idea of the essay
- Auxillary
- Helping verb
- Figurative Language
- Poetic creative immaginative - Opposite of literal language - Metaphor, SImile, Personification
- Narrative
- Writing that tells a story
- Linking
- Verb that referes back to the subject using: like, is, are, was, were or am
- Six Traits
- IWOSCV
- Primary
- First Hand account by eyewitness
- Secondary
- A source that is based on reaserch and investigation
- Concrete Detail
- Factual Point - Data - Evidence
- Comentary
- Ex. Feelings, interpertations, Why the point is important
- Theme
- The central idea of a work
- Conclusion
- Finished Feeling
- Descriptive
- Writing which paints livid colorful pictures in the mind
- Pronoun
- Takes place of a noun
- Transitions
- Words that help tie ideas smoothly together
- Persuasion
- Writing that influences your ideas
- Clause
- A group of words with a subject and predicate. Ones that cannot stand alone they are called subordinate or dependant
- Tone
- Mood or emotional feel
- Coherence
- Understandable Ideas - Gets reader from one point to the next
- Transitive
- A verb that has a dirrect object
- Topic Sentence
- First statement of a paprgraph that introduces what the paragraph will be about
- Body
- Middle developmental paragraph in the essay