Elements of a novel
What actually happens in the story. A beginning, a middle, and an end, with a realistic storyline. Your characters will help this move along naturally with realistic dialogue.
What is the plot?
Some poems follow a rhythm at the end of the lines that are called
What is a rhyme scheme?
Which punctuation mark is used at the end of the sentence to ask a question
What is a question mark?
Genre that looks like a comic book.
What is a graphic novel?
The process of creating a word that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes.
What is onomatopoeia?
The creation and development of the people in a story.
What is characterization?
Elements of a poem that invoke any of the five senses to create a set of mental images.
What is imagery?
Which punctuation mark is used at the beginning and end of someone’s exact words?
What is quotation marks?
Genre that usually set in a fictional world, includes elements of magic, mythology, or supernatural.
What is fantasy?
The organization and presentation of events and scenes in a work of fiction or drama so that the reader or observer is prepared to some degree for what occurs later in the piece of literature.
What is foreshadowing?
Before going ahead with your story, ask yourself whose story it is that you want to tell, then make sure it’s told from that perspective only.
What is point of view?
Division of lines into a group.
What is a stanza?
A word that conveys an action, an occurrence, or a state of being.
What is a verb?
Fiction offers a vision of the future where societies are in decline, with characters who battle environmental ruin, technological control, and government oppression. Can challenge readers to think differently about current social and political climates, and in some instances can even inspire action.
What is the dystopian genre?
A rhetorical device, literary technique, or event in which what on the surface appears to be the case or to be expected differs radically from what is actually the case
What is irony?
So, what is the main storyline about? What is the feature of it that remains in your mind once you stop reading? This underpins everything else that’s going on. There may be more than one, or a main one with other, smaller themes threaded through it.
What is theme?
A Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world.
What is a haiku?
Which punctuation mark is used to form a possessive noun?
What is an apostrophe?
Though they're often thought of in the same vein as fantasy, this genre leans heavily on themes of technology and future science. You'll find apocalyptic and dystopian novels in this genre as well.
What is Science Fiction (SCI-FI)?
A literary device that uses symbols, be they words, people, marks, locations, or abstract ideas to represent something beyond the literal meaning.
What is symbolism?
Like artists, no two authors express themselves in exactly the same way. The way you tell your story is unique.
What is style?
What is a sonnet?
What is the name of the comma that appears before the word “and” in the following sentence? I bought milk, eggs, and butter at the grocery store.
What is an oxford comma?
These books are based in a time period set in the past decades, often against the backdrop of significant (real) historical events.
What is Historical Fiction?
A figure of speech that creates heightened effect through deliberate exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?