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Unit 2B
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Author's Craft | The skills and techniques an author uses to tell a story or create a piece of writing |
| Author's purpose | The reason an author writes about a particular topic. |
| Audience | The intended target group for a message. |
| Author’s craft | consists of the skills and techniques that an author uses to tell a story or create a piece of writing |
| Author’s purpose | the reason an author writes about a particular topic. |
| Characterization | The way an author constructs a character |
| Context | The words, sentences, or passages that precede a word, sentence or passage that helps the reader understand its meaning |
| Dialogue | the lines spoken between characters in fiction or a play; the main way plot, character, and other elements are established in a play. |
| Editing | a part of the writing process when a written text is looked at for errors or ways to make the message more clear. |
| Figurative language | language not intended to be taken literally; layered with meaning through the use of imagery, metaphors, and other literary devices. |
| Genre | The type or class of a work, usually categorized by form, technique, or content |
| Metaphor | a subtle comparison in which the author describes a person or thing using words that are not meant to be taken literally. |
| Mood | the atmosphere or feeling created by the writer in a literary work or passage. |
| Personification | figurative language where non-human things are represented as having human qualities. |
| Plot | The basic sequence of events in a story; includes the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution. |
| Poetic form | a distinctive poetic structure with distinguishable characteristics based on meter, lines, stanzas, and rhyme schemes. Examples |
| Revising | literally to “see again,” to look at something from a fresh, critical perspective, rethinking the paper |
| Setting | The time and place in which a narrative occurs. |
| Stage directions | descriptions or instructions in a play that provide information about characters, dialogue, setting, and actions. |
| Structural elements | the basic form of a poem, including its visual presentation (lines, stanza, or verse) |
| Theme | the central or universal idea of a literary work that often relates to the morals and/or values and speaks to the human experience/condition. |
| Tone | the author’s particular attitude, either stated or implied in the writing. |
| Voice | an author’s unique articulation or expression of language created by stylistic elements such as syntax, diction, and figurative language. |
| Audience | the intended target group for a message, regardless of the medium. |
| Characterization | the method in which an author constructs a character by explicitly stating aspects of his/her personality and appearance |
| Context | the words, sentences, or passages that precede or follow a specific word, sentences or passage, |
| Figurative Language | language not intended to be taken literally but layered with meaning through the use of imagery, metaphors, and other literary devices. |
| Genre | the type or class of a work, usually categorized by form, technique, or content. |
| Personification | figurative language in which non-human things are represented as having human qualities |
| Plot | the basic sequence of events in a story that includes the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. |
| Setting | the time and place in which a narrative occurs. Elements of setting may include the physical, psychological, cultural, or historical background against which the story takes place. |
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