1. Autobiography—A story one writes about ones own life.
2. Biography—A story someone writes about the life of someone else.
3. Fiction—A Story about imagined characters and events.
4. Historical Fiction—A story about imagined characters and events, but with a true, historical setting.
5. Non-fiction—A story that is about actual people and events.
6. Fable—A short tale written to teach a moral lesson.  The characters are often animals.
7. Parody—A humorous imitation of a work of literature, art or music (Weird Al songs).
8. Comedy—A story with humorous situations and a happy ending.
9. Tragedy—A story in which a main character suffers great misfortune or death.
10. Theme—The author’s intended message, moral or main idea of the story.
11.  Plot—The sequence of events in a story.
12. Rising Action--Events in a story which advance the plot.
13. Setting—When and where the story takes place.
14. External Conflict—A conflict between two or more characters or a characters and an outer force.
15. Internal Conflict—A conflict a character is dealing with within his or her own mind or emotions.
16. Climax—The high point of interest or suspense in a story, sometimes called the turning point.
17. Resolution—The part of a story following the climax when remaining plot elements are explained and loose ends are tied up.
18. Foreshadowing—Clues given during the rising action of a story about what is to come.
19. Flashback—The technique of shifting to a previous time in a story to present new information to the reader.
20. Point of View—The perspective from which a story is told.
21. First Person—The story is told from the point of view of a main character.
22. Third Person—The story is told from an outside perspective of a narrator not in the story.
23. Third Person Omniscient—The outside narrator knows the motivations, thoughts and feelings of all characters.
24. Context Clues—Information gathered by a reader from the words surrounding an unknown word.
25. Inference—A logical guess that is based on facts gathered and one’s own knowledge and experience.
26. Analogy—A relational comparison (hot is to cold as night is to day).
27. Simile—A comparison of one thing to another using the words “like” or “as”.
28. Metaphor—A direct comparison of two things using a being verb (Jeff is a pig at the table!)  
29. Poetry—A piece of writing composed to create a specific emotional response and arranged in lines that may have a pattern of rhythm and/or rhyme.
30. Ballad—A type of poem that tells a story and is usually written to be sung.
31. Sonnet—A type of poem what has 14 lines and a rhyme scheme.
32. Haiku—A type of nature poem originated in Japan that has three un-rhyming lines in a five-seven-five syllable pattern.
33. Free Verse—A poem with no set rhyme scheme or pattern.
34. Limerick—A humorous poem that has five lines with an aabba rhyme scheme and an eight-eight-five-five-eight syllable pattern.
35. End Rhyme—The poetic technique of ending two or more lines with words that rhyme.
36. Internal Rhyme—The poetic technique of having a word within a line of poetry rhyme with the last word of the line.
37. Alliteration—The repetition of the beginning sound in two or more words in a phrase.
38. Stanza—A division of lines of a poem, similar to a paragraph in prose
39. Refrain—A stanza or line that is repeated periodically throughout a poem.
40. Figurative Language—Language or speech that is not meant to be taken literally.
41. Oxymoron—A combination of opposite or conflicting ideas (sweet sorrow).
42. Hyperbole—An exaggeration or overstatement (I could eat a horse!)
43. Irony—A statement with an intended meaning that is opposite of the literal meaning (calling a stupid plan brilliant)
44. Suspense—A feeling of anticipation about unfolding events.
45. Imagery—The use of sensory detail words to create a picture in the reader’s mind.
46. Personification—Describing animals, ideas or things in human terms (the sun smiled).
47. Onomatopoeia—words formed by imitating sounds (buzz, pop).
48. Idiom—A language-specific expression which can’t be translated literally (I’m all tied up today)
49. Symbolism—The use of one thing to represent or suggest something else (black hat = bad guy).
50. Cliché--An overused expression, such as "quiet as a mouse"
51. Noun—A part of speech that names a person, place, thing or idea.
52. Pronoun—A part of speech that takes the place of a noun.
53. Object Pronouns—Me, him, her, them, us, it, you
54. Subject Pronouns--I, he, she, they, we, it, you
55. Adjective—A part of speech that modifies (describes) a noun.
56. Verb—A part of speech that shows action, occurrence or state of being (existence).
57. Adverb—A part of speech that modifies (describes) a verb, adjective or adverb. It often ends with -ly.
58. Preposition—A part of speech that shows a relationship between a noun or a pronoun and another word in a sentence.
59. Prepositional Phrase—A phrase made up of a preposition, the object of the preposition and any modifiers.
60. Coordinating Conjunctions—Words used to join parts of a sentence: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so.
61. Correlative Conjunctions—Pairs of words used to connect parts of a sentence: both…and, either…or, neither…nor, not only…but also, 
62. Verbal—A word that looks like a verb but is used as a different part of speech.
63. Participle—A verbal that is used as an adjective.
64. Gerund—A verbal that ends in –ing and is used as a noun.
65. Infinitive—“To” plus the base form of a verb.  It is used as a noun, adjective, or an adverb.
66. Contraction—A word created by joining two words into one with an apostrophe holding the place of removed letters.
67. Apostrophe—A punctuation mark used in contractions and possessives.
68. Quotation Mark—Punctuation mark used to identify direct conversation and the titles of short stories, essays, poems, songs, articles or book chapters.
69. Underline—Punctuation used to identify the title of a book, play, film, television series, magazine, newspaper or work of art.
70. Etymology—The study of the origins of words.
71. Synonyms—Words that have the same meaning.
72. Antonyms—Words that have the opposite meaning.
73. Thesaurus—A reference book of synonyms and antonyms.
74. Homonyms—Words that sound alike, but have different meanings
75. Simple Sentence—A group of words that contains a complete subject, complete predicate and expresses a complete thought.
76. Sentence Fragment—A sentence that lacks a complete subject and/or a predicate or does not express a complete thought.
77. Sentence Run-on—A long sentence that does not have proper punctuation
78. Compound Sentence—A sentence formed by joining two simple sentences using a comma and a coordinating conjunction or a semicolon.
79. Independent Clause—A group of words that has a subject and a verb and can stand alone as a sentence.
80. Dependent Clause—A group of words with a subject and a verb, but it does not express a complete thought and can’t stand alone.
81. Complex Sentence—A sentence containing an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.
82. Paragraph--A group of related sentences that develop a single idea.
83. Prewriting—First stage of the writing process:  brainstorm ideas, organize with an outline or graphic organizer, and research information.
84. Rough Draft—Second stage of the writing process: write a draft of the paper using the outline or organizer.
85. Edit/Revise—Third stage of the writing process: check the order and relevancy of information and the need for more or less elaboration.
86. Proofreading—Fourth stage of the writing process: Check for grammatical errors, spelling errors and other technical errors. 
87. Final Draft—Produce a detailed, elaborated, interesting and polished final copy.
88. Paragraph—A group of sentences related to a single topic.
89. Thesis Statement —Statement of the main idea or purpose of a piece of writing.
90. Topic Sentence--A sentence that expresses the main idea of a paragraph.
91. Transition Words—Introductory words that create a relationship with the previous sentence.
92. Elaboration—The addition of detail to one’s writing.
93. Hypothetical Situation—Elaboration technique of stating possibilities: “what if” statements.
94. Expository—Mode of writing that explains, defines or interprets facts.
95. Descriptive—Mode of writing that paints a picture of a person, event or story using vivid details.
96. Persuasive—Mode of writing that tries to get the reader to agree with the writer or to take action.
97. Propaganda—An extreme form of persuasive writing that is usually very one-sided and may be false or misleading.
98. Narrative—Mode of writing that tells a story.
99. Bibliography—Citation list of the sources used in preparing a research paper or report.
100. Plagiarism—The illegal act of presenting another’s work as your own.

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