This is used when the subject of a sentence performs the action.

This is a public announcement promoting a product or service.

This has to do with the beauty of something rather than its usefulness.

This is a story with two or more levels of meaning--a literal level and a symbolic level--in which events, setting, and characters are symbols for ideas or qualities.

This is the repetition of initial consonant sounds at the beginnings of words.

This is the reference to a person, place, or event from history, literature, or religion with which a reader is likely to be familiar.

This is a magazine or book that contains weather forecasts, statistics, or other information of use or interest to readers.

This is a brief story about an interesting incident.

This is a word or phrase that means the opposite of another word or phrase.

This is used to show the possessive form of a noun and is used to show that a letter or  letters have been left out of a contraction.

This is a word or phrase that identifies or explains the noun that it follows.

This is the kind of writing that tries to persuade readers to accept an author's opinions.

This is whoever will be reading or listening to a piece of work/speech.

This is the story of a person's life written by that person.

This is a list of written works or other sources on a particular subject.

The story of a person's life written by another person.

This is poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.

This is the relationship between two or more events in which one event brings about another.

This is the combination of ways that an author shows readers what a person in a literary selection is like.

This is the arrangement of events in the order in which they occur.

This is a group of words that has a subject and a predicate. It can be dependent or independent.

This is the part of the plot where the conflict and tension reach a peak. It is the turning point of the plot.

This is writing that expresses ideas in a clear, logic way, where reasonable explanations are given or can be deduced by the reader from inference

This is a punctuation mark used before a list of items or details, before a statement that  summarizes the original statement, before a long, formal quotation or statement, or in a business letter after the salutation.

This is a punctuation mark that may be used to indicate a pause, connection, separation, list or for

clarity or to show importance.

This wraps up a piece of writing and reminds readers of the thesis.

This is the main problem in a literary work.

This may be used with a semicolon to connect independent clauses and usually serves as a transition

between the clauses.

This is the emotional feelings and associations that go beyond the dictionary definition of a word.

This is a word formed by combining two words and adding an apostrophe where the letters are omitted.

An image or metaphor that dominates a literary work, especially with respect to conveying a theme.

In writing, this is the trait to measure standard writing and the editing processes of spelling, punctuation, grammar, capitalization, and paraphrasing.

This is a written or spoken evaluation of what is and is not effective in a literary work

This is when we analyze a spoken or written word to discover its pronunciation or meaning.

This is the dictionary definition of a word.

These are the words spoken by characters in a literary

work.

This is a daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations.

This is the writer's choice of words, including the vocabulary used, the appropriateness of the words, and

the vividness of the language.

This is a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words, with information given for each word, usually including meaning, pronunciation, and

etymology.

This is a preliminary version of a piece of writing.

This is a story written to be performed by actors.

This is a poem that makes use of the techniques of drama. The speaker is clearly someone other than the poet. More than one character may speak.

This is to correct and/or revise a piece of writing.

This is an article in a publication or a commentary on television or radio expressing the opinion of its editors,

publishers, station, or network.

This is a comprehensive reference work containing articles on a wide range of subjects or on numerous aspects of a particular field, usually arranged alphabetically.

These are references or explanations that usually appear at the end of a document. They most often include a bibliography and a works cited page.

This is the repetition of similar sounds that comes at the ends of lines of poetry.

This is a long story written as a letter.

This is a short, nonfiction work about a particular subject.

This is the part of the plot that introduces the characters, the setting, and the basic situation.

This is a statement that can be proved to be true.

This is writing that tells about imaginary characters and events.

This means traditional verse form, or a poem that

inherits from other poems certain familiar elements of

structure including an unvarying number of lines, rhyme,

meter, particular themes, tones, and other elements.

This is the ability to speak, read, or write a

language; automatic word recognition, decoding, and

checking for meaning.

This is the structure into which a piece of literature is

organized.

This is used by writers of scholarly books. It usually has

longer sentences and a greater variety of words than

everyday speech. Slang, contractions, and jargon are

avoided.

This is poetry written without a regular rhyme scheme,

meter, or form.

Traditionally, this has been used primarily to refer to

the grammatical categories of ‘masculine,’ ‘feminine,’

and ‘neuter.’

This is a verb form ending in -ing that functions as a

noun.

This is the structure of language and the rules that

go with it.

This is a punctuation mark used to divide or to

compound words or elements.

This is a suggested, but not stated, definition.

This is a group of words that states the main thought

of a sentence and is complete within itself.

This is reading between the lines. It is taking

something that you read and putting it together with

something that you already know to make sense of what

you read.

This is always in the form of ’to’ + a verb-like word.

This verbal unit in a sentence actually acts as a noun,

adjective, or adverb, rather than a verb.

This is what people use in everyday speech. It usually

consists of fairly short sentences and simple vocabulary.

This is the beginning of a written work that explains

what will be found in the main part.

This is a daily autobiographical account of events

and personal reactions

This is a story about mythical beings or supernatural

events, usually originally told orally for generations

before being written down.

This is a written communication or message

addressed to a reader or readers that is usually sent by

mail.

This is the body of written works that includes prose

and poetry.

This is the central and most important idea of a

reading passage.

This is the main means of mass communication.

This is an informal method of written

communication, often used in business settings.

This is an account of the personal experiences of an

author

This is a direct comparison of two unlike things

without using the words "like" or "as."

This is the rhythm or regular sound pattern in a

piece of poetry.

This is a figure of speech in which one word or phrase

is substituted for another with which it is closely

associated.

This is the use of the fewest and barest essentials or

elements in literature

This is a long, uninterrupted speech by a character

in a play, story, or poem.

This is the feeling that an author wants readers to

have while reading.

This is the wants, needs, or beliefs that cause a

character to act or react in a particular way.

This is factual writing that presents and explains ideas

or that tells about real people, places, objects, or events.

This is a long work of fiction. It has a complicated

plot, many characters, a significant theme, and varied

settings.

This is never the subject, but always a noun, in a

sentence it can be either direct or indirect.

This is the use of words that sound like the noises they

describe.

This is a statement that reflects a writer's belief about

a topic , and it cannot be proved.

This is a statement that seems absurd or

contradictory but expresses a truth.

This is the restatement of a written work in one's own

words that keeps the basic meaning of the original work.

This is a humorous imitation of a literary work that

exaggerates or distorts the characteristic features of the

original.

This is used when the subject of a sentence receives

the action instead of doing it.

This is a literary or other artistic work that portrays or

evokes rural life, usually in an idealized way.

This is a publication issued at regular intervals of

more than one day.

This is a type of figurative language in which human

qualities are given to nonhuman things.

This attempts to convince a reader to adopt a

particular opinion or course of action.

This is the series of events that happen in a literary

work.

This indicates more than one person, place, thing, or

idea.

This is an arrangement of words in verse. It

sometimes rhymes, and expresses facts, emotions, or

ideas in a style more concentrated, imaginative and

powerful than that of ordinary speech.

This is the third major type of literature in addition to

drama and prose.

This is the perspective from which a story is told.

This is a word that takes the place of noun and shows

ownership.

This can be added to the beginning of a word to

change the word's meaning

This is an original document or firsthand account.

This is a word that takes the place of a noun.

This is the process of making marks on a written

document to correct errors.

This is an extreme form of persuasion intended to

prejudice and incite the reader or listener to action

either for or against a particular cause or position.

This is an institution or organization that prints and

releases written work.

This is the system of standardized marks in written

language to clarify meaning.

This is the part of the plot where the conflict and

suspense build.

This is a word related in origin, as certain words in

genetically related languages descended from the same

ancestral root. It is the part of the word after all affixes

have been removed.

This is a small division of a play that usually

happens in a particular time and place.

This is a commentary on an original document or

firsthand account.

This is a punctuation mark that is used between

clauses of a compound sentence when a conjunction is

not used, before conjunctive adverbs that join

independent clauses, and in a series when the series

already contains commas.

This is the chronological, or time, order of events in a

reading passage.

This is the time and place in which a literary work

happens.

This is a comparison of two unlike things using the

terms "like" or "as".

This is a fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in

rhymed iambic pentameter.

This is an article in a publication or a commentary on

television or radio expressing the opinion of its editors,

publishers, station, or network.

This is a group of related lines in a poem, similar to a

paragraph in prose.

This is any kind of mental action used by a student to

comprehend and make meaning out of a reading text.

This is the way an author expresses ideas through

the use of kinds of words, literary devices, and sentence

structure.

This is a secondary plot in a work of literature that

either explains or helps to develop the main plot.

This can be added to the end of a word to change the

word's meaning.

A figure of speech in which a part is used for the

whole, the whole for a part, the specific for the general,

the general for the specific, or the material for the thing

made from it.

This is a word or phrase that has the same or almost

the same meaning as another word or phrase.

This refers to the ordering of elements in a sentence.

This is when a passage begins as happening in one

particular time and then goes to another time without

warning and for no reason.

This is the main body of a piece of writing or any of

the various forms in which writing exiists, such as a book,

a poem, an article, or a short story.

This is the way in which the main idea of a literary

work is expressed, usually as a generalization that is

supported with concrete evidence.

This is the attitude that an author takes toward the

audience, the subject, or a character.

This is a one-sentence summary of a paragraph's

main point.

This documentation is the record in printed form of

what was said.

This is used by a writer to show restraint or lack of

emphasis in expression, as for rhetorical effect.

This is a word that denotes action, occurrence or

existence.

This indicates the time of the action or state of

being.

This is another way of saying ’diction.’ This can help

reveal a) the tone of the work, b) connotations of

meaning, and/or c) his style of writing.