English Definitions Flashcards

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Representation

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includes such things as a picture, collage, video, chart, diagram, or poster and certain kinds of performance such as tableaux and mime.  Representation is also defined as including music and tone of voice when these are used to produce mood or atmosphere.

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Text

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are the things that students listen to, read, and view.  Text is defined as any kind of communication in oral, print, visual, or multimedia form.  Conversation/oral text, words on paper/print text, photographs/visual text, cartoon strips or drum dancing/multimedia text. Authors, playwrights, photographers, cartoonists, and choreographers are all text creators.

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Context

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All the words before and after a particular word are the word’s context.  The context helps to explain the word’s meaning.  The same is true of all the words before or after a phrase, a paragraph, or an entire chapter.

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Genre

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means any classification of texts by form, style, or subject matter.  Genre describes content, or subject matter. It also contains certain characteristic elements. For example; A western usually includes a gunfight.

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Form

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refers to the structural organization or specific format of a piece of writing. It describes how a work is constructed rather than what its content is.

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Style

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is how the author writes, along with the purpose of writing.  There are four primary forms of writing: expository, descriptive, narrative, and persuasive.  These styles are used to figure out the purpose of an author’s writing.

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Narrative

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It is narrowly defined as fiction-writing in which the narrator is communicating directly to the reader. Ex: Novels, short stories, comics, musicals, and plays.

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Point of View (First Person)

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When the narrator is a person in the story, telling the story from their own point of view.

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Point of View (Third Person, subjective/limited)

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The narrator exists outside the events of the story and relates the actions of the characters by referring to their names or by the third person pronouns he, she, and they.

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Point of View (Objective)

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A narrative style that view the characters and events within your story much as you might view them on a movie screen.  The narrator does not have any insight into the characters’ thoughts and feelings beyond what they show through their words, actions and expressions.