Essentials of Literature
Nonfiction
100
A class or division of literature comprising stories and works of imaginative narration, such as short stories and novels.
What is fiction?
100
The branch of literature composed of works based on factual information, offering opinions or facts for research or informational purposes.
What is nonfiction?
200
A category or section of literature falling into a particular style, theme or setting.
What is genre?
200
A recollection of previous events written by someone with intimate or personal knowledge of said events.
What is a memoir?
300
The use of words and language to convey emotion,feeling, or thoughts; often uses rhythm.
What is poetry?
300
A view or idea belonging to an individual person that cannot be proven as a fact.
What is an opinion?
400
The eventual readers or viewers of a book, radio or television broadcast.
What is audience?
400
Something that actually exists or is based on true events.
What is a fact?
500
The highest or most intense point in the plot of a book.
What is the climax?
500
A type of discourse meant to explain, describe or inform.
What is expository writing?