Fiction and Nonfiction
Types of Stories
Literary Devices
Figurative Language
Poetry
100
Time and place where the story takes place.
Setting
100
Longer works of fiction.
Novels
100

Use of clues that hint at future events.

Foreshadowing

100

Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the five senses.

Imagery

100

Arrangement of groups of lines to create an appearance on the page or to organize thoughts.

Stanza

200
Sequence of events that takes you through a story.
Plot
200
Prose writing that tells about characters and events from the author's imagination.
Fiction
200

Contrast between an actual outcome and what the reader or characters expect will happen.

Irony

200
Describe one thing as if it were something else.
Metaphors
200

Rhythmical pattern, or arrangement and number of stressed and unstressed syllables.

Meter

300
Problem in the story.
Conflict
300
Literature that draws, in part, on real people and events to tell invented stories.
Historical Fiction
300

Most musical of literary forms.

Poetry

300
Gives human qualities to something nonhuman.
Personification
300

14-line poems with a formal tone that follow a specific rhyme scheme.

Sonnets

400
Conclusion of the story.
Resolution
400
Deals with only real people, events or ideas.
Nonfiction
400

The character or voice who tells the poem.

Speaker

400
Use like or as to compare two unlike things.
Similes
400
Poems with a formal tone, written for the single purpose of celebrating or honoring a person, object, or idea.
Odes
500
Message about life that a story conveys to its reader.
Theme
500
Brief works of fiction made up of setting, plot, characters, point of view, and theme.
Short Stories
500

Writing that is innovative, imaginative, and not meant to be taken literally.

Figurative Language

500
Use of words that imitate sounds.
Onomatopoeia
500
Formal poems that reflect on death or other solemn, serious themes.
Elegies
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