Forms of Literature
What are the three main forms of literature?
What is prose, poetry, drama.
What is folk literature?
What is literature about different cultures and traditions.
What is rhythm?
What is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is the theme of the story?
What is the meaning or the insight into life of the story.
What is an expository essay?
What is an essay that explains and presents information.
What does the pie acronym mean in nonfiction?
What is to persuade, to inform and to entertain.
What is a folk tale?
What is a story passed down from generation to generation before being written.
What is the linking sounds at the ends of words.
What is rhyme.
What is characterization?
What is the process of creating fictional characters.
What is a personal essay?
What is an essay that provides an informational account of an important episode of a persons life.
How many words does a novella have?
What is 17,000 words or more.
What is a fable?
What is a brief story that teaches a lesson called a moral.
Give three three types of figurative language.
What is Simile metaphor, and personification. Or any types of figurative language.
What is the difference between the plot of the story and conflict of the story?
The plot is a sequence of events leading up to the climax. The conflict is the problem that characters have to face in a story.
Is an autobiography written by someone else a different author?
What is no it is written about a persons life and it is written by that same person.
What form of literature is 40,000 or more words?
What is a novel.
What is a legend?
What is a fiction that is believed t be real.
What is lyric poetry about?
What is a poem that is not a story however it expresses thoughts and feelings of the author.
Are stage directions in brackets and italicized?
What is no.
What is the point of view in a story?
What is the vantage point from which a story is told.
What is the difference between a short story and nonfiction?
What is a short story is a brief work of fiction and nonfiction is literature about real life.
What is the difference between a legend and a myth?
What is a legend is a fiction to be true and a myth is a fictional tale that tells the actions of gods and heros.
What is form?
What is the shape and appearance of the poem in lines and stanzas on the page
What does the STEAL acronym stand for in drama?
What is How the character speaks, thinks, its effect on others, actions, and how he or she looks.
What is the difference between expository essay and informational text?
What is an expository text presents and explains information. An informational text is a guide in everyday life.