Narratives
Literary Non-fiction
Poetry
Vocabulary
Stories
100
This is a story told about someone's life as a whole.
What is a biography?
100
This type of story is based on what kind of events?
What are true events?
100
This is a nature poem with a 5-7-5 syllable count in its three lines.
What is haiku?
100
This young person frequently breaks the law.
What is a juvenile delinquent?
100
This story focuses on a woman telling made-up stories to news reporters.
What is "The Three Century Woman"?
200
These are stories written by the author about their own life.
What is an autobiography?
200
These are fiction elements that show up in this non-fiction style of writing.
What are characters, setting, and plot?
200
This poem tells a story, usually about adventure or romance.
What is a ballad?
200
This is a loud collection of noise.
What is a din?
200
This story talks about an air-ship disaster.
What is "The Fall of the Hindenburg"?
300
An autobiographical narrative is based on this kind of event.
What is a true story that happened to the author?
300
We use this type of words to help readers have mental pictures when we write.
What are sense words?
300
This is how you mark the series of end-rhymes within a poem.
What is rhyme scheme?
300
This word means to show affection or passion for.
What is ardor?
300
This tells the tale of a drake who loses hope once he is captured by a Chinese dignitary.
What is "The Mandarin Ducks"?
400
These are the five steps of the writing process.
What are pre-writing, organizing, drafting, proofreading/editing, and publishing?
400
This style of writing tells true stories, but tries to make them this 12 letter adjective as well.
What is entertaining?
400
This is how you identify a rhyme scheme in poetry.
What is marking them with letters of the alphabet, starting with A?
400
This word means a male who is brave and courteous.
What is gallant?
400
This is the part of a story where you find out how things wrap up for the characters.
What is the resolution?
500
This is the name we use for when people in a story have conversations?
What is dialogue?
500
Lesson!
What should be included in your story for finals?
500
This is the "paragraph" of a poem's structure.
What is a stanza?
500
This is a knife that can collapse into a smaller, safer size.
What is a switchblade?
500
This type of character is not the focus of the story, but they make it more interesting.
What is a secondary character?
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