Poetry
When two words end in the same sound
What is rhyme?
a phrase applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance
What is a metaphor?
a story written in as few words as possible, typically under 2,000
What is flash fiction?
A story that is true, but uses figurative language and other poetic elements
What is creative non-fiction?
What are bell ringers?
When two words begin with the same letter or sound
What is alliteration?
A metaphor using the words "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution
What is narrative structure?
poetry that is meant to be performed in front of an audience
What is performance poetry?
the way an author's personality comes through on the page, via everything from word choice and sentence structure to tone and punctuation
What is voice?
Type of poetry that doesn't follow a specific rhyme scheme or meter
What is free verse?
pictures that are constructed using words
What is imagery?
a punctuation mark indicating a pause between parts of a sentence. It is also used to separate items in a list and to mark the place of thousands in a large numeral.
What are commas?
Written by Sandra Cisneros, this story recounts the author's sorrowful childhood birthday
What is Eleven?
a gathering of writers to share their pieces with each other
What are Writers Rooms?
a group of lines forming the basic recurring metric unit in a poem
What is a stanza?
the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman
What is personification?
a punctuation mark indicating a pause, typically between two main clauses that do not include a coordinating conjunction word like "but" or "and"
What is a semi-colon?
narrative form true accounts of historical eras and events, written with storytelling, dialogue, setting, and character development
What is historical nonfiction?
a repository of thoughts and ideas that writers collect from other sources for future use or to reflect upon
What is a commonplace book?
a line length that has 3 feet (hint: the second part of the word is "meter")
What is trimeter?
objects that stand to represent other concepts
What are symbols?
Directly focused descriptions of specific things, adds to the realism of the story
What are details?
the craft of giving a character a personality, depth, and motivations that propel them through a story from beginning to end
What is character development?
a Japanese poem consisting of five lines, the first and third of which have five syllables and the other seven
What is a tanka?