Authors
Poets
Literary terms
Genres
Short-short Fiction
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Ernest Hemingway
Who reported from the front lines of the Spanish Civil War?
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This poet wrote a free verse poem with strong imagery based on the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City.
Who is Robert Pinsky?
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Connotation
What is the implied meaning of a word?
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This poetic form has six stanzas, each with six lines and a final three-line envoy. Each line ends with a terminal word in a certain order that does not rhyme.
What is a sestina?
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These were the writer guidelines for your first three-minute fiction story.
What is one character had to tell a joke, and one character had to cry.
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In a TED video, she speaks of the dangers of the "single story."
Who is Chimamanda Adichie?
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This contemporary poet wrote a poem comprised of a string of images titled, "Want me."
Who is Melissa Stein?
200
This is the struggle found in all writing, except perhaps in "how to" articles, or "about" articles, but especially in fiction, and may be internal or external.
What is conflict/plot?
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This Elizabethan poetic form has 14 lines and a couplet. It has a rhyme scheme for the terminal words at the end of each line.
What is the Elizabethan or Shakespearean sonnet?
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The author chosen to set the writer's guidelines for round 6 of NPR's Three-minute Fiction contest.
Who is Chimamanda Adichie?
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This author's essay has been anthologized from his memoir about his childhood in Saskatchewan.
Who is Wallace Stegner?
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This poet wrote a sestina set in her grandmother's kitchen.
Who is Elizabeth Bishop?
300
This is the language that evokes one or all of the five senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, touching.
What is imagery?
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This genre is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, and length differs somewhat even among professional writers, in part because of the fragmentation of the medium into sub-genres. The actual length is determined by the individual author's preference (or the story's actual needs in terms of creative trajectory or story arc) and the submission guidelines relevant to the story's actual market. Guidelines vary greatly among publishers.[1] Many short story writers define their work through a combination of creative, personal expression and artistic integrity. As a result, many attempt to resist categorization by genre as well as definition by numbers, finding such approaches limiting and counter-intuitive to artistic form and reasoning. As a result, definitions of the short story based upon length splinter even more when the writing process is taken into consideration. Contents [hide]
What is the short story?
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The name of a website for posting short, short non-fiction essays. We found Rebecca Ewan's "Moth" on this website.
What is Brevity?
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This is the title of a famous essay set in the author's boyhood town of Saskatchewan.
What is "The Town Dump?"
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This poet was a practicing pediatrician in New Jersey and wrote a famous poem titled "The Red Wheelbarrow."
Who is William Carlos Williams?
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In prose, this is the repetition of vowel sounds but not consonant sounds.
What is assonance?
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This genre (also known as literary or narrative nonfiction) is a genre of writing that uses literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives. This genre contrasts with other nonfiction, such as technical writing or journalism, which is also rooted in accurate fact, but is not primarily written in service to its craft. This genre is still relatively young, and is only beginning to be scrutinized with the same critical analysis given to fiction and poetry.
What is a creative nonfiction?
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Kaiya writes online in this new genre.
What is Fan-fiction?
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Alice Walker
Who is the author of "Everyday Use" ?
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This poet wrote "The Snowman," a poem considered "perfectly balanced" by an NPR critic.
Who is Wallace Stevens?
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This is a form of extended metaphor, in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative, are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The underlying meaning has moral, social, religious, or political significance, and characters are often personifications of abstract ideas as charity, greed, or envy. Thus this term suggests a story with two meanings, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning.
What is Allegory?
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This essay genre is considered the most open form on the open to closed writing spectrum.
What is the thematic essay?
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"The Saint and the Criminal"
What is the title of the winning story for round six?
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