Genres and Such
Poetry
Fiction
Nonfiction
Grammar
100
Short stories and novels with made-up characters and events
What is fiction
100
A group of lines in a poem (similar to a paragraph in a short story)
What is a stanza?
100
The point of view used when an author uses the words "I", "me" and "my"
What is first person?
100
This type of nonfiction is a full-length, book length account of a person's life, told by someone other than the subject.
What is biography?
100
The part of the letter that contains the return address and date.
What is the heading?
200
Showing how two things are alike
What is Compare?
200
I was so hungry I could eat a horse.
What is hyperbole?
200
A word or words used to describe the personality of a character.
What is character trait?
200
This type of nonfiction is a first-person account of a person's life from their birth or childhood up until present day.
What is autobiography?
200
You should always do this when writing the specific name of a person, place, or event.
What is capitalize the first letters?
300
An autobiography, biography, memoir, personal narrative, or expository piece
What is nonfiction?
300
She danced like a graceful swan.
What is simile?
300
I grabbed the spoon and licked it in front of her, even as she glared at me.
What is person vs. person conflict?
300
A short, narrowly focused article or essay about a single experience in one's life.
What is personal narrative?
300
The part of the writing process that results in adding or deleting content and making corrections in grammar, spelling, or punctuation.
What is editing and revising?
400
The only type of literary nonfiction that can be told from third person point of view
What is biography?
400
The sun, that gold medallion suspended in the heavens, shimmered overhead.
What is metaphor?
400
The author's intended message, which is usually broad and can be related to many people in many cultures and many times.
What is theme?
400
A book length story about a significant portion of a persons life, although not their entire life.
What is memoir?
400
Words like happiness, wealth, fear, winter, time, exhaustion.
What is abstract nouns?
500
A type of story passed down by word of mouth; characters often include animals and there is usually a moral or lesson to be learned.
What is a folk tale?
500
A poet writes this line in order to communicate what idea? "The whole of the forest applauded the storm's entrance as it swept onto their long-suffering, silent stage."
What is the dramatic arrival of a much needed rain... The poet uses personification (the forest applauded, the storm swept) and alliteration (storm, swept, suffering, silent, stage).
500
"The foul, acrid smell twisted itself out of the animal's carcass and worked its way into my sensitive nose, making me feel sick to my stomach." The author's attitude is one of disgust and repulsion.
What is tone?
500
Many authors write for this purpose when writing memoir or autobiography.
What is sharing an experience or teaching a lesson?
500
What type of sentence is this: After school, Ashley, Katie, and Dan ran to the train station, bought their tickets, and rode the train downtown.
What is compound? This sentence has a compound subject (Ashley, Katie, and Dan) and a compound predicate (ran to the train station, bought their tickets, and rode the train downtown). It is, however, still only one complete thought. There is no dependent clause here. The words "After school" do not qualify as a dependent clause because they don't contain a subject and verb.
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