Poetry
Genre
Types of Literature
Literary Terms
Literary Terms 2
100
The repetition of sounds at the end of words.
What is a Rhyme?
100
a prose writing that tells about imaginary characters and events.
What is Fiction?
100
a long work of fiction.
What is a Novel?
100
The use of words to that imitate sounds.
What is onomatopoeia?
100
a work of literature, especially in a play, that results in a catastrophe for the main character.
What is tragedy?
200
A group of lines of poetry that are usually similar in length and pattern and are separated by spaces.
What is a stanza?
200
A division or type of literature.
What is genre?
200
One of the three types of literature. Usually make use of highly concise, musical, and emotionally charged language.
What is Poetry?
200
A person or an animal that takes part in the action of a literary work.
What is a character?
200
a central message in a literary work.
What is theme?
300
A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem. To indicate this, you use lower case letters.
What is a rhyme scheme?
300
A prose writing that presents and explains ideas or that tells about real people, places, objects, or events.
What is Non-Fiction?
300
The story of the writers own life, told by the writer.
What is an Autobiography?
300
the perspective, or vantage point, from which a story is told.
What is Point of View?
300
The sequence of events in which each event results from a previous one and causes the next.
What is Plot.
400
A three-line Japanese verse form. The first and third line each have 5 syllables, while the second line has seven.
What is a haiku?
400
Combines elements of fiction and fantasy with scientific facts.
What is science fiction?
400
A brief work of fiction.
What is a Short Story?
400
the act of creating and developing a character.
What is characterization?
400
The outcome of the conflict in a plot.
What is resolution?
500
A highly musical verse that expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker.
What is Lyric Poetry?
500
Highly imaginative writing that contains elements not found in real life.
What is Fantasy?
500
A form of non-fiction in which a writer tells the life story of another person.
What is a Biography?
500
the author's use of clues to hint at what might happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
500
The time and place of the action.
What is setting?
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