Childrens Lit/writing Process Flashcards
What is a meter in poetry
The rhythm or beat
Define stanza
Group of lines similar to paragraphs
What are the structural elements of literature
Characters, setting, conflict, phot, resolution, p.O.V., theme
What is the purpose of a narrative
To tell a story
What is the exposition
Beginning of a story
What is expository writing
Used to inform readers, or give a description → recipe, paragraph in a science or social text book
Highly descriptive using rhetorical techniques to describe
What is persuasive writing
Used to present an argument and convince the reader of perspective on issue
What is a noun
Person, place, thing, idea
Common ( student, teacher, room, school) not capitalized
Proper ( Blanca, Ms. Robinson, Idaho, Fredrick Douglass Elementary School) capitalized
What is a pronoun
Words that take the place of nouns → subjects ci, you, he she, its we, they) or as objects come, you, her, him, it, US, them)
Always have an antecedent (noun to refer to)
What is a verb
Describes an action or state of being (walk, eat, speak)
What is an adjective
Used to modify and describe nouns → taller, hungry
Adverbs modify with -ly
What is a preposition
Word that expresses a relationship between words and usually comes before a noun → up, in
What is a conjunction
It joins words or sentence parts together (and, but, or, nor, for, yet, so)
Joins two independent clauses to form complex sentences
What is an interjection
Expresses spontaneous feeling > oops, whoa, hmm
What are determiners
Explaining what a noun refers to ca, an, the, my, his, ours, yours)
