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MAISA-Narrative
MAISA-Launching the Writer's Notebook
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| narrative techniques | Special things writers do to make their story unique such as figurative language, flashback, or foreshadowing. |
| tone | A quality, feeling, or attitude expressed by the words someone uses in speaking or writing. |
| character | A person who appears in a story, book, play, movie, or television show. |
| analysis | A careful study of something to learn about its parts, what they do, and how they are related to each other. |
| point of view | A way of looking at or thinking about something. Also--who is telling the story (third person, first person, or omniscient). |
| scenes | A division of an act in a play during which the action takes place in a single place without a break in the action/time. |
| evaluation | To judge the value or condition of something or someone in a careful way. |
| relevance | Relating to a subject in an appropriate way. |
| engagement | The act or state of being involved. |
| dialogue | The things that are said by the characters in a story, movie, play, etc. |
| chronology | The order in which a series of events happened. |
| sequence | The order in which things happen |
| multimedia | Using or involving several forms of communication or expression. Examples: photographs, film, music, Podcast, etc. |
| citation | A line or short section taken from ANOTHER piece of writing or research which states WHERE the information came from. |
| personal narrative | A story that is told or written about yourself. |
| theme | The main subject or issue that is being discussed often or repeatedly in a piece of writing, a movie, etc. |
| audience | The people who watch, read, or listen, to something. |
| generation | The act or process of making something |
| conferment | To carry on a discussion with another person |
| pacing | The speed at which something moves |
| inference | The act or process of reaching a conclusion (or opinion) about something from known facts or evidence |
| elaboration | To give more details about something |
| comparison | The act of looking at things to see how they are alike (similar). |
| narrator | The person or character who tells a story |
| tension | A feeling of nervousness, excitement, anger, or fear that is created between characters, or in a book, movie, etc. |
| contrast | To compare two things (or people) and show how they are different. |
| plot | A series of event that form the story in a novel, movie, etc. |
| evidence | Proof or details from the reading that you can use to help support your claim |
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Ms_Clupper
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