Creative Writing Vocabulary 1

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Most important point the author makes; a one-sentence statement summing up major ideas of an informational text.

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Central Idea

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Listener, viewer, or reader of a text

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Audience

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Struggle between opposing forces; protagonist faces a problem against herself, another character, society, god, nature, technology, or an external force.

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Conflict

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Major category of literature

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Genre

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Sequence of events in a story: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution.

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Plot

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Art of effective or persuasive speaking/writing, using figures of speech and compositional techniques.

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Rhetoric

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A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem.

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Stanza

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Personality used by a writer or speaker.

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Voice

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Moral or lesson of a narrative; a unifying idea in literature.

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Theme

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A conversation between characters in a story.

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Dialogue