Major Genres of Literature
This genre of literature is the largest, and is written in sentences and paragraphs.
What is Prose?
A very brief work of prose fiction. This work of literature is briefer than a novella.
What is a short story?
A story of someone's life written by that person.
What is an autobiography?
A comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as.
What is a simile
This is the point of greatest tension in the story.
What is the climax?
This genre of literature is meant to be performed by actors portraying characters.
What is Drama?
A highly imaginative type of fiction that contains elements not found in real life.
What is Fantasy?
A brief prose work about a particular subject.
The giving of human characteristics to inhuman objects.
What is Personification?
The event in a story that introduces the conflict.
What is the inciting incident?
A novella is a briefer version of this prose fiction.
What is a novel?
This type of fiction takes place in a point in history and uses real events as a basis for the story.
An informational type of writing made to help with everyday life.
What is informational text?
Sometimes mistaken for figurative language, this literary term contains things such as an onomatopoeia.
What is a sound device?
What is the resolution?
These dramatic essentials are triggered by italics and brackets.
What are stage directions?
A type of fiction that has some basis in real-world science.
What is exposition literature.
This type of figurative language describes one thing as if it were another.
What is a Metaphor?
This underlying problem usually keeps the story moving and is essential to the plot.
What is a conflict?
This genre is not written in a traditional manner, usually has rhythm and rhyme.
What is poetry?
This type of fictional story looks into many insights, explanations, values, hopes, and fears. Used to explain natural phenomena.
What is folk tradition?
A story about someone's life written by someone else. Person's life usually has some sort of value.
What is a biography?
To name a group of people or things, this type of figurative language uses a part of something to do so.
What is Synecdoche?
This part of the plot tells about what happens after the conflict is resolved.
What is the Denouement?