Creative Writing Vocabulary 1

The most important point the author makes; a one-sentence statement that sums up the major ideas of an informational text

• Central Idea

• Theme

• Audience

• Genre

the listener, viewer, or reader of a text

• Plot

• Dialogue

• Theme

• Audience

A struggle between opposing forces; when the protagonist is forced to face a problem against herself, another character, the society, god, nature, technology or some other external force.

• Plot

• Conflict

• Rhetoric

• Dialogue

a major category or type of literature

• Central idea

• Character

• Stanza

• Genre

Sequence of events in a story; the series of events that comprise the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution of a story.

• Plot

• Conflict

• Rhetoric

• Dialogue

the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.

• Plot

• Conflict

• Rhetoric

• Dialogue

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

• Plot

• Stanza

• Rhetoric

• Dialogue

The real or assumed personality used by a writer or speaker.

• Genre

• Voice

• Central Idea

• Audience

The moral of the story or lesson learned at the end of a narrative text, story or poem; a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work

• Central Idea

• Theme

• Audience

• Genre

A conversation between two or more characters in a story.

• Plot

• Conflict

• Rhetoric

• Dialogue