Literary Terms Flashcards

Front

The message or main idea of a poem or the lesson the author wants to teach you.

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Theme

Front

To tell in a shortened form.

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Summarize

Front

A story of someone’s life, written by someone else.

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Biography

Front

A story of someone’s life, written by themselves.

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Autobiography

Front

Incomplete sentence that is missing a subject, predicate, or complete thought.

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Fragments

Front

Has more than one subject with a predicate, joined without correct punctuation or conjunction.

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Run-on Sentences

Front

A list of standards that we can follow when creating our own work.

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Criteria

Front

To be successful at something.

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Effective

Front

What the sentence is about, or who or what is performing an action in the sentence.

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Subject

Front

The part of a sentence, or a clause, that tells what the subject is doing or what the subject is.

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Predicate