Genres
Poetry
Persuasion & Logic
Literary Device
Story Elements
100
true story of a person's life, written or told by that person
What is autobiography?
100
a group of lines in a poem, like a paragraph
What is a stanza?
100
an appeal using facts & logical thinking, or reasoning
What is a logical appeal?
100
to repeat
What is repetition?
100
events in a story
What is plot?
200
true story of a person's life, written or told by someone else
What is biography?
200
a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that gives a line of poetry a predictable rhythm
What is meter?
200
an appeal to the "heart" or emotions
What is an emotional appeal?
200
This is an example: "Peter Piper picked a pickle."
What is alliteration?
200
message or main idea of a story
What is theme?
300
a traditional story passed down orally long before written down
What is a folktale?
300
the repetition of similar or identical sounds at the ends of words that appear close to each other, usually in a poem
What is rhyme?
300
an appeal to shared values, beliefs, or authority
What is an ethical authority?
300
This is an example: "The cloud cried of great sorrow."
What is personification?
300
time and place of a story
What is setting?
400
an autobiographical narrative emphasizing the narrator's personal experience during a period or at an event
What is a memoir?
400
poetry that has no fixed pattern of meter, rhyme, line length, or stanza arrangement
What is free verse?
400
a statement of opinion about a problem or an issue and the support for the statement
What is an argument?
400
extreme exaggeration
What is a hyperbole?
400
most exciting part of the story; turning point
What is climax?
500
a traditional story handed down from the past and believed to be based on actual people and events
What is a legend?
500
a traditional Japanese form of poetry that has three lines and seventeen syllables
What is a haiku?
500
consists of examples, facts, and expert opinions
What is evidence?
500
This is an example: "Juliet is the sun."
What is a metaphor?
500
reveals the outcome of the conflict
What is resolution?
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