9th Grade Literature and Composition Terminology

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  1. 4. Linking words or connecting words used to link together different ideas in your text. They help the reader to follow arguments by expressing the relationships between different sentences or parts of a sentence
  2. 5. A comparison NOT using "like" or "as"
  3. 7. The portrayal of fictional or non-fictional events through the performance of written dialogue; A play
  4. 9. An insight into human life taken from a piece of literature
  5. 15. Giving a nonhuman thing human characteristics
  6. 18. A character that changes during a story
  7. 20. When something opposite of what is expected to happen in a story happens
  8. 22. The reader's attitude towards the text; often built by the tone
  9. 23. A quick line of text at the top of each page with the page number and the writer's last name
  10. 24. The author's attitude towards his/her subject; built with by the author's diction
  11. 25. Your Name, Teacher Name, Class, Date
  12. 26. An author's word choice
  13. 27. Words that trigger the reader to recall images, or mental pictures, that engage one of the five senses: sight, sound, taste, smell, and touch.
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  1. 1. A character that stays the same from the beginning of a story to the end
  2. 2. A type of literature that conveys a thought, describes a scene or tells a story in a concentrated, lyrical arrangement of words. Can be structured, with rhyming lines and meter, the rhythm and emphasis of a line based on syllabic beats
  3. 3. A hint or clue given by an author of something that will happen later in a story
  4. 6. A body of words
  5. 8. A comparison using "like" or "as"
  6. 10. A piece of writing that is written to convince someone of something or to simply inform the reader about a particular topic
  7. 11. Any person, animal, or figure represented in a literary work
  8. 12. Literature that is TRUE
  9. 13. Literature that is fabricated
  10. 14. Use the five senses (sight, touch, sound, taste, and smell) to add depth of detail to writing.
  11. 16. When the audience/reader knows something the characters do not
  12. 17. A narrative work of prose fiction that tells a story about specific human experiences over a considerable length
  13. 19. Who will be reading or watching a work of literature
  14. 21. Information from an originating source or other texts to support an argument