Vocabulary
Short Stories
Poetry
Fiction
Writing
100
fictional writing that tells a story. It is different than an essay
What is narrative writing?
100
A dystopia
What is an imperfect society?
100
The "sentence" part of a poem
What are lines?
100
This word means non-real writing.
What is fiction?
100
A type of writing that tells a story. This is different than a literary analysis or essay.
What is narrative writing?
200
to remember the past fondly
What does reminiscent mean?
200
A story by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., about a young boy who can't be handicapped enough.
What is Harrison Bergeron?
200
The pattern of stressed and unstressed beats in a line of poetry
What is meter?
200
This means real writing.
What is nonfiction?
200
This type of writing tells information. It does not tell an opinion or a story.
What is an informational essay?
300
Utopia
What is a perfect society?
300
The author of "The Tell Tale Heart"
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
300
More often seen in poetry, when a non-human object is given characteristics of a human.
What is personification?
300
A long piece of fiction separated into chapters.
What is a novel?
300
This type of writing argues an opinion, with which the reader may or may not agree.
What is argumentative writing?
400
Soliloquy
What is that thing when a character in a play speaks to themselves/the audience?
400
The short story in which a community plays the Lottery, but you don't really want to be the winner.
What is Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery?"
400
The "beat" of a poem
What is rhythm?
400
A category of fiction based on real people and/or events, but is not real.
What is historical fiction?
400
The stage of editing in which you apply feedback to your first draft.
What is revision?
500
The "paragraph" of a poem
What is a stanza?
500
Short stories have this, even though they are much shorter than a novel.
What is a fully developed theme?
500
Made popular by Shakespeare, a specific meter and rhythm of sonnets with a 5-beat per line.
What is iambic pentameter?
500
A special genre of fiction that deals with magic, epic adventures, and heroes.
What is fantasy?
500
The stage of editing in which you finish your final draft and share it with others.
What is publishing?
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