Writings that tell about imaginary characters and events
What is fiction
100
A writing that tells a story.
What is narration
100
A speaker or a character who tells a story.
What is a narrator
100
A three-line Japanese verse form.
What is Haiku
100
A story that can be either fiction or nonfiction.
What is a narrative
200
A brief story or poem, usually with animal characters, that teaches a lesson, or moral
What is a fable
200
The introduction, that introduces the characters, setting, and basic situation
What is an exposition
200
A humorous, rhyming, five-line poem with a specific meter and rhyme scheme. (aabba)
What is a limerick
200
A story composed orally and then passed from person to person by word of mouth.
What is Folk tale
200
A lesson taught by a literary work. A fable usually ends with this.
What is a moral
300
A contradiction between what happens anad what is expected.
What is irony
300
A work of fiction that is longer than a short story but shorter than a novel.
What is a novella
300
A long work of fictin that contains such elements as characters, plot, conflict, and setting.
What is a novel
300
A widely told story about the past---traditional stories
What is a legend
300
The use of words that imitate sounds. (Crash, buzz, screech, hiss, neigh, jingle, cluck)
What is an onomatopoeia
400
A peom's rhythmical pattern which is determined by the number of stresses, or beats, in each line.
What is meter
400
The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage.
What is mood
400
A type of literature- poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drama
What is a genre
400
Poetry not written in a regular, rhythmical pattern, or meter.
What is Free verse
400
A fictional tale that explains the actions of gods or heroes or the origins of elements of nature.
What is a myth
500
The author's use of clues to hint at what might happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing
500
Words or phrases that appeal to one or more of the five senses.
What is Images or imagery
500
A reason that explains the actions of gods or heroes or the origins of elements of nature.
What is a motive
500
A scene within a story that interrupts the sequence of events to relate events that occurred in the past.
What is Flashback
500
a prose writing that presents and explains ideas or that tells about real people, places, objects, or events. ( autobiographies, biographies, essays, reports, letters, memos, newspapers)