Poetry
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Genres
Hodge Podge Poetry
100
A poem without regular meter or line length
What is free verse?
100
The organization of individual incidents in a story
What is plot?
100
The story of someone's life as written by another
What is biography?
100
A rhythmic expression of feelings or ideas, often using metaphor, meter, and/or rhyme
What is poetry?
100
A group of syllables forming a metrical unit
What is a foot?
200
An unrhymed poetry form consisting of three lines of five, seven, and five syllables each
What is haiku?
200
A secondary plot in a story
What is subplot?
200
The story of one's life as written by oneself
What is autobiography?
200
A historically accurate narrative
What is non-fiction?
200
Two successive lines of poetry, usually rhymed
What is a couplet?
300
A poem, often meant to be sung, that tells a story
What is a ballad?
300
The point of highest emotional intensity in a story
What is the climax?
300
A short written work of non-fiction, usually on one topic
What is an essay?
300
Novels, stories, poems, and plays that entertain, inform, or stimulate thought
What is literature?
300
A lyric poem marked by strong feelings and an involved style
What is an ode?
400
A poem consisting of fourteen iambic pentameter lines with a rigidlyprescribed rhyming scheme.
What is a sonnet?
400
A story with an underlying meaninig symbolized by the character and action
What is allegory?
400
The central idea or thesis of a work
What is the theme?
400
Narrative writing drawn from the imagination of the author
What is fiction?
400
An extended narrative poem, exalted in style and heroic in theme
What is an epic?
500
Unrhymed poetry, especially poetry written in iambic pentameter
What is blank verse?
500
A character who exhibits qualities such as courage, idealism, and honesty
What is a hero/heorine?
500
The ridicule of a subject
What is satire?
500
A long work of fictional prose
What is a novel?
500
A pause or break in a line of verse
What is a caesura?
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