Sarah Lay

Unit 1 Vocabulary

Convention (of fiction): frequently recurring things in a story

Crime Fiction: detective fiction, hard-boiled, noir, police procedural, thriller, and legal/courtroom
drama
Description: adding interest to your narrative
Detective Fiction: a detective investigates a crime scene.
Dialogue: conversation between two or more people
Femme Fatale: frequent character in crime fiction/beautiful, seductive woman who leads a man
into danger (sometimes death)
Genre: a type of writing that has key features, styles, and presentations
Language: form or manner of verbal expression
Medium: a means for communicating; for example: in print or online
Noir: features a cynical narrator, violence, sexual motivations
Organization: the arrangement of ideas or details in a story or essay
Purpose: a writers goal: to explore, entertain, persuade, etc.
Stance: a stance or speakers attitude toward his or her subject
Tone: readers judgment of what a text sounds like