QUIZ
This is the origin of the word literature. In Latin, it means "letters."
LITERA
A fictitious prose narrative of book length, divided in several chapters, typically representing character and action with some degree of realism.
NOVEL
This is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form.
LITERATURE
A type of prose that is an analytic or interpretative literary composition usually dealing with its subject from a limited or personal point of view
ESSAY
A fictitious story meant to teach a moral lesson: the characters are usually talking animals.
FABLE
There was a little girl named Pinang who couldn't find things asked by her mother, and who became a pineapple fruit with many eyes so that she can see everything. This is an example of ________.
LEGEND
This is a literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm.
POETRY
This is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood.
SHORT STORY
This is a written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure.
PROSE
It is a figure of speech and type of metaphor that compares two different things using the words “like” or “as.”
SIMILE
This is a literary work written for the theater that dramatizes events through the performance of dialogue and stage directions.
PLAY
It is a detailed third person account of another person’s life story. It contains basic information about the subject’s life—like their place of birth, education, and interests.
BIOGRAPHY
It is a type of biography, which tells a life story of its author, meaning it is a written record of the author’s life.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
These are stories in the oral tradition, or tales that people tell each other out loud, rather than stories in written form.
FOLKTALES
This is a traditional story or tale full of symbols in which the key figures in myths are gods, demigods, or supernatural humans with unrealistic powers and talents entangled in extraordinary events or circumstances in an unknown period.
MYTH
This figure of speech is used to make a direct comparison between two different things, in order to ascribe a particular quality to the first.
METAPHOR
"I can swim the ocean just to be with you now." This statement is an example of ___________.
HYPERBOLE/EXAGGERATION
It is a figure of speech in which an idea or thing is given human attributes and/or feelings or is spoken of as if it were human.
PERSONIFICATION
"Seven Little Kids" is an example of __________.
FABLE
"Sarah's sweet scent of success" is an example of ____________.
ALLITERATION
This is the repetition of the same consonant sounds in a line of text. Basically, the same consonant sounds are found at the middle or end of the words.
CONSONANCE
This is the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible. For example, "Oaks grow slowly."
ASSONANCE
This is a formal public speech, especially one delivered on a special occasion, as on an anniversary, at a funeral, or at academic exercises.
ORATION
This means the freedom to depart from the facts of a matter or from the conventional rules of language when speaking or writing in order to create an effect.
POETIC LICENSE
"Hello, darkness, my old friend." This is an example of __________.
APOSTROPHE