Types of Writing
How literature is categorized based on literary conventions
What is Genre
This is where a story takes place in time and location
What is Setting
When an author intentionally makes a reference to another work, such as another piece of literature, a piece of artwork, or a time, place, or person.
What is Allusion
When words that sound alike are paired together or near each other.
What is Rhyme
Compares two things where one is the other.
What is Metaphor
A type of literary art form where writers use figurative language and other poetic devices to get the point of their subject across
What is Poetry
Protagonist, antagonist, hero/heroine are the people who move the plot along and the reason that many readers stay with a story
What is Character
Words used to evoke pictures in the minds of the readers.
What is Imagery
Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
What is Alliteration
Compares two things using like or as.
What is Simile
A type of narrative literature that contains imaginary characters and events.
What is Fiction
This is how the story is told by the narrator or author; either first, second, or third person.
What is Point of view
An exaggeration.
What is Hyperbole
Words that represent sounds.
What is Onomatopoeia
This is where animals or inanimate objects are given human qualities.
What is Personification
A type of literature written about someone by another person.
What is Biography
Is the central idea or message of the story.
What is Theme
Words used that often mean something different or the opposite of what they mean.
What is Irony
Combination of accented and unaccented syllables which often form a pattern.
What is Meter
Type of phrase where the meanings cannot be inferred by the literal meaning of the words.
What is Idiom
A type of narrative that often involves human suffering, including death, in the story.
What is Tragedy
Words used to express how the author feels about the text.
What is Tone
Happens when the storyteller or narrator builds excitement in a scene, often prior to the climax.
What is Suspense
Pattern of words or phrases that repeats throughout a literary work.
What is Refrain
An expression intended for a humorous or rhetorical effect by exploiting different meanings of words
What is Pun