WorksheetsLiterary Terms 8 th grade 10/24
Total questions: 28
Worksheet time: 14mins
A person or group for whom the authors write
Autobiography
Audience
Informative Essay
Memoir
The story of a person's life written by that person
Essay
Purpose
Autobiography
Voice
The story of a person's life told by another person
Biography
Chart
Non fiction
Personal essay
A short nonfiction work that makes a point about a single subject
Argumentative essay
Essay
Personal essay
Informative essay
A type of autobiography that focuses on one incident or period in a person's life
Point of View
Thesis
Tone
Memoir
A brief nonfiction writing piece that is written to inform the reader
Informative Essay
Diagram
Flow Chart
Voice
Explores real people's ideas, lives, events, and places
Non fiction
Map
Visual Media
Pie Chart
A short nonfiction work on a single topic related to the life of the writer
Argumentative Essay
Purpose
Tone
Personal Essay
The writer's goal is to persuade the reader to accept a point of view
Audience
Biography
Argumentative Essay
Essay
The vantage point from which the story is told
Point of View
Chart
Purpose
Diagram
A writer's aim or goal
Illustration
Voice
Purpose
Thesis
A main idea that is supported in a work of nonfiction
Pie Chart
Thesis
Essay
Argumentative Essay
The emotional attitude toward the reader or toward the subject implied by a literary work
Audience
Autobiography
Memoir
Tone
The way a writer uses language to reflect his or hers personality toward topic, form, and audience
News Article
Voice
Flow Chart
Timeline
A visual representation of a story's plot and structure
Chart
Flow Chart
Diagram
How-to Article
A visual representation, such as a drawing or image, that helps readers understand the author's description of a text
Voice
Audience
Diagram
Illustration
A diagram that can be used to demonstrate character development in a literature
Chart
Pie Chart
Web Page
Flow Chart
The express purpose of explaining how to do something that a reader needs to accomplish
Illustration
Pie Chart
How-to Article
Diagram
A rhetorical style that uses examples, images, or other clarifying information to demonstrate a point, idea, or concept
Audience
Biography
Nonfiction
Illustration
A form of nonfiction that aims to convey or explain information
Informational Text
Photograph
Map
Visual media
A visual representation of information that connects works of literature, authors, and geographical locations
Map
Chart
Web Page
Science Article
An article that reports news or other important events
Thesis
News Article
Memoir
Informational Text
An image in the form of a print or slide recorded by a camera on photosensitive material
Web Page
News Article
Chart
Photograph
A graphical representation of data that uses a circle to show how a whole is divided into parts
Flow Chart
Chart
Pie Chart
Diagram
A written piece that presents original research findings, data analysis, and conclusions based on evidence
Science Article
Visual Media
Audience
Nonfiction
A visual representation of events in chronological order
Timeline
Nonfiction
Chart
Audience
Any form of communication or expression that relies on visual elements
Tone
Voice
Flow chart
Visual Media
A hypertext document on the World Wide Web
Purpose
Visual Media
Web Page
Illustration
