Poetry
The conversation of a character indicated by quotation marks
What is direct dialogue?
Repeated vowel sounds
What is assonance?
One of the top two Tips to Increase Tension in Fiction in your syllabus
What is conflicting goals or time limits?
A type of poem written without rhyme
What is free verse?
A moment when something happens
What is a beat?
Predictable words, characters, or plots that should be avoided; dead metaphors that no longer conjure images in our heads
What is a cliche?
A type of writing: poems, flash fiction, plays, graphic novels, etc.
What is genre?
First, second, and limited third person describe this
What is point of view?
A poem where the lines extend over to the right margin, more like a paragraph
What is a prose poem?
A story or speech spoken or delivered by one speaker
What is monologue?
To cut a certain amount of a piece of writing before publication
What is to green line?
Basing a story on a character you can thoroughly imagine, a place you know, and the current time
What is the rule of threes?
The person telling the story
What is the narrator?
The person or perspective from which a narrative (in a story or poem) is told
What is point of view?
Summarized dialogue, no quotations
What is indirect dialogue?
Modern poetry generally builds on this number one tip
What is imagery?
A writer's style, including types of language, sentences, vocabulary, and tone
What is voice?
The practice of ordering beats so the situation gets more intense as the piece progresses
What is complication?
A popular online management tool for submitting work to literary magazines for publication
What is Submittable?
We don't say "Reach for the stars," which is a cliche, but in writing poetry, we do say to reach for this
What is metaphor?