Types of Literature
Poems that make use of highly concise, musical, and emotionally charged language.
What is poetry?
A person or an animal that takes part in the action of a literary work.
What is a character?
A figure of speech that uses like or as to directly compare two unlike ideas.
What is a simile?
An essay that offers an opinion and support.
What is a persuasive essay?
The dictionary meaning of a word.
What is denotation?
Literature that combines elements of fiction and fantasy with scientific facts. These stories are set in the future.
Science Fiction
The turning point is the high point in the plot's action. It is the moment of most incredible tension, when the plot's outcome hangs in the balance.
What is the climax?
A figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else. Also points out a similarity between two unlike things.
What is a metaphor?
An essay in which the author explains, defines, or interprets ideas, events, or processes.
What is an explanatory essay?
To restate something, you read or heard in your own words.
What is paraphrasing?
A story written to be performed by actors using a script, dialogue and stage directions.
What is drama?
The outcome of the conflict in a plot.
What is the resolution?
Words that imitate sounds help put the reader into the action of a poem.
What is onomatopoeia?
An essay that explains a process.
What is an informational essay?
A word with a set of ideas based on personal or individual experiences and its explicit meaning.
What is connotation?
A story of the writer's own life, told by the writer.
What is an autobiography?
The plot of the story, or a drama, or introduction, is the part of the work that introduces the characters, setting, and basic situation.
What is an exposition?
The repetition of sounds at the ends of words.
Rhyme
An essay that tells a story about a real-life experience.
Narrative Essay
Making an educated guess about a character based on how he or she thinks, acts, or speaks; referred to as reading between the lines.
What is Inference?
A highly imaginative writing that contains elements not found in real life
Fantasy
A struggle between opposing forces. It is one of the most essential elements of stories, novels, and plays because it causes the action.
What is conflict?
A type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics.
What is personification?
An essay that explains an idea by breaking it down.
Expository Essay
The use of symbols highlights certain elements the author wishes to emphasize and levels of meaning.
What is symbolism?