TYPES OF LITERATURE 1
A category of literature.
What is genre?
Oral communication where thoughts and emotions can be expressed using sound and gestures.
What is speech?
Using information found in text by summarizing, paraphrasing, giving specific detail, or using direct quotations.
What is textual evidence?
The sequence of events in the story (what happens)
What is plot?
A true story about a real person or event
What is a narrative essay?
A brief work of fiction that contains a plot, conflict, theme, etc.
What is short story?
A type of writing that uses lines and stanzas with highly concise, musical, and emotionally charged language; often uses imagery and figurative language.
What is poetry?
A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.
What is an inference?
Conversation between characters
What is dialogue?
The dishonest presentation of another’s words or ideas as one’s own
What is plagiarism?
Writing that is imaginary
What is fiction?
The dictionary definition
What is denotation?
The central message, concern or purpose.
What is theme?
A story written to be performed
What is drama?
A restatement of someone’s ideas in words that are different from the original passage but retain its ideas, tone, and general length
What is paraphrase?
Writing about REAL people, events, places, etc.
What is nonfiction?
The writer’s attitude toward the readers and toward the subject, conveyed by the language and rhythm of the speaker
What is tone?
Person or animal in a story.
What is a character?
Writing that is not meant to be taken literally; used for descriptive effect
What is figurative language?
The quality of a speaker or writer that makes that person’s words believable
What is credibility?
Text with the primary purpose of expressing information about arts, science, or social studies.
What is informational text?
Comparing two things that are alike in some way
What is analogy?
The time and place of the action in a literary work (year, time of day, weather, country, etc.)
What is setting?
The thoughts and feelings associated with a word, rather than its dictionary definition (context clues)
What is connotation?
Presents and supports an opinion with strong arguments or reasons
What is an argumentative essay?