Literature
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100
Like a fable, when a story's events or characters represent ideas from real life
What is allegory?
100
A book or set of books giving information on many subjects or on many aspects of one subject and typically arranged alphabetically
What is encyclopedia?
100
A 14 line poem.
What is sonnet
100
Literature from around the world
What is world literature?
200
The main body of a Written work
What is text?
200
A book of maps or charts
What is atlas?
200
A particular preference or point of view that is personal, rather than scientific
What is bias
200
Arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted
What is setting
200
A major category or type of literature
What is genre?
300
Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
What is sensory language?
300
A set of instructions for making something
What is recipe?
300
An article giving opinions or perspectives
What is editorial
300
A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work.
What is theme
300
A selected part of a passage or scene
What is excerpt?
400
A composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines
What is poem?
400
An annual calendar containing important dates and statistical information such as astronomical data and tide tables
What is almanac?
400
A generalized belief about a group of people
What is stereotye
400
Comparison of something using the words like or as
What is simile?
400
A story passed down from person to person by word of mouth
What is folk tale?
500
A reference to something literary, mythological, or historical that the author assumes the reader will recognize
What is Allusion?
500
Information especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view
What is propaganda?
500
An apparently contradictory statement that actually contains some truth.
What is paradox?
500
Expressing opinions or bias
What is editorial?
500
A list of difficult words and their meanings that are in a book
What is glossary?
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