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Analysis Of The Parts
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100
The art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts; literary work in metrical form; verse
What is poetry?
100
A comparison using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
100
Literature in which speculative technology, time travel, alien races, intelligent robots, gene-engineering, space travel, experimental medicine, dimensional portals, or altered scientific principles contribute to the plot or background.
What is science fiction?
100
A series of related events that make up a story or drama. It's what happens in a story, novel, or play. It includes the basic situation (exposition), the conflict, the main events, the final climax and resolution.
What is a plot?
100
An account of a person's life, written by another person.
What is a biography?
200
A novel set among actual events or a specific period of the past. Fictional characters take part in, influence, or witness real historical events and interact with historical figures from the past.
What is historical fiction?
200
An expression where the meaning is different from the literal meaning of the words.
What is an idiom?
200
An account of the writer's own life.
What is an autobiography?
200
The most important or central thought of a paragraph or larger section of text, which tells the reader what the text is about.
What is the main idea?
200
This type of literature takes place today or in the recent past; events in the story did not really happen, but could have.
What is contemporary/realistic fiction?
300
Literature in this genre has its primary focus on the relationship and infatuation between two people, and must have an "emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending."
What is romance?
300
A word that makes the sound of the action it describes.
What is onomatopoeia?
300
The class of literature comprising works of imaginative narration, especially in prose form.
What is fiction?
300
The time, place and atmosphere of a story or play. Most often this is established early on in a story.
What is the setting?
300
Traditional story that is rooted in a particular culture, is basically religious, and usually serves to explain a belief, a ritual, or a mysterious natural phenomenon.
What is a myth or legend?
400
A novel focused on suspense and solving a 'whodunnit' -- especially a murder, theft, kidnapping, or some other crime. The protagonist faces inexplicable events, threats, assaults, and unknown forces or antagonists.
What is mystery?
400
The use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
400
Brief, concentrated, fictional prose narrative. Usually built on a plot that consists of the basic situation or exposition, complications, climax and resolution.
What is a short story?
400
Verbal "bridges" to link one idea to the next, crucial to paragraph coherence. They make the difference between abrupt, choppy sentences and seamless prose.
What are transitional devices?
400
Prose writing that deals with real people, things, events, and places. The most popular forms of this genre are biography and autobiography. Other examples include essays, newspaper stories, magazine articles, historical writing, scientific reports, and even personal letters and diaries.
What is non-fiction?
500
A short piece of non-fiction that examines a single subject from a limited point of view.
What is an essay?
500
A reference to a person, place, event, or idea in history or literature.
What is an allusion?
500
A story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious. A book, literary work, etc., containing such a story.
What is a narrative?
500
The central idea of a work of literature. It is often the idea the writer wishes to reveal about the subject, and is usually expressed in at least one complete sentence.
What is the theme?
500
A class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique, or the like.
What is genre?
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