Genres
Literature Terms
Textbook Features
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Genres/Literature2
100
Nonfiction that is a biography of a person written by himself or herself.
What is an autobiography?
100
Time and place of action.
What is setting?
100
A way to present data.
What is a chart?
100
Information that you already know.
What is prior knowledge?
100
Skits, musicals, or plays that use language, song or dance to convey messages.
What is a drama?
200
Believable fiction that is set in the present.
What is realistic fiction?
200
The series of events in a story.
What is plot?
200
A list of words and definitions often found in the back of the book.
What is a glossary?
200
To explain to meaning of.
What is to interpret or interpretive?
200
Nonfiction writing about a topic, including books and newspaper or magazine articles.
What is informational text?
300
Fiction that includes secrets or crimes to be solved.
What is a mystery?
300
The person telling the story. Can be in 1st, 2nd, or 3rd person point of view.
What is narrator?
300
Title, subtitle, or topic at the beginning of a text.
What is a heading?
300
To combine to form a new product.
What is to synthesize?
300
Exaggeration or overstatement either for comic affect or to heighten emotions.
What is hyperbole?
400
Folktale that is considered sacred and that attempts to explain how things came to be.
What is a myth?
400
A message about life that a writer wants you to understand.
What is theme?
400
A representation of the earth.
What is a map?
400
The meaning is word for word.
What is literal?
400
Reading material published at regular intervals.
What is a periodical?
500
Highly imaginative fiction that uses strange or unusual characters, setting, and plot.
What is fantasy?
500
A contrast between expectation and what actually happens.
What is irony?
500
A guide in a textbook.
What is an index?
500
A note that explains something added to text.
What is an annotation?
500
The emotional associations that a word calls to mind.
What is connotations?
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