Unit #4: Drama Terms
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18 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 essay | a prose piece that argues, analyzes, or narrates |
| fiction | imagined story, whether in prose, poetry, or drama FAKE |
| nonfiction | an essay that does not narrate made-up events, but it is not a work of pure fact; they always include some opinion |
| narrative essay | an essay where the center of the story is about actual events |
| descriptive essay | an essay where the writer uses detailed descriptions |
| analytical essay | an essay where the writer focuses on how and why something works or how and why something is true |
| argumentative essay | an essay where the writer states a strong thesis about a debatable issue, providing evidence to back up that claim |
| expository essay | an essay that is informative |
| thesis | the central idea of a work; in an argumentative essay it is the author's claim that he/she is supporting |
| tone | the implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and characters of a work, as, for example, Judy Brady's sarcastic tone in "Why I Want a Wife." |
| style | the way a author chooses words, arranges them in lines, sentences, paragraphs, or stanzas, and conveys meaning through the use of imagery, rhythm, rhyme, figurative language, irony, and other devices |
| cause/effect relationships | organizational pattern where the first event not only proceeded the second, but caused it to happen |
| comparison/contrast relationship | a relationship that shows how things are alike and different |
| subject by subject structure | a way a writer would compare/contrast by writing about object A in the first half of the essay ad object B in the second half of the essay |
| point by point structure | a way a writer would compare/ contrast by discussing the first point of comparison/contrast between A and B, then the second point of comparison/contrast, then the third and so on |
| Modes of organization: chronologically | a work where events unfold in the order in which they occurred |
| Modes of organization: spatially | a work where the author will look at an object being described and move, for instance, from right to left or top to bottom |
| Modes of organization: logically | the way a writer organizes a work so that it ill be understood easier. These organizational modes might include cause/effect, or least important to most important. |
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