Fiction or Cutting Bait
"Taylor Swift" by Hugh Behm-Steinberg is written in what point of view?
Second Person
A fourteen-line lyric poem
Sonnet
A personal or autobiographical narrative written in prose.
Memoir
Establishing contextual details about characters and setting, usually in the beginning of a story.
Exposition
An example of a literary magazine that publishes fiction or poetry.
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"Incarnations of Burned Children" by David Foster Wallace and "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid are examples of what form?
Flash Fiction
Invented by Afaa Michael Weaver in 1997, this lyric form uses samples from music as a refrain.
The Bop
Maggie Smith titled her memoir with this final line from her poem "Good Bones." (There might be a hint on this board).
You could make this place beautiful.
This long hyphen—like a more intense comma or a more versatile colon—can be used to interrupt a thought in the middle of the sentence.
Em dash
This website is the most popular submission manager for literary magazines and small presses.
Sally Rooney published this short story in The White Review. She later expanded it into the bestselling novel Normal People, which was adapted into a Hulu series.
At the Clinic
Rhythmic structure of a poem, determined by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Meter.
Hanif Abdurraqib details his friendship with Tyler and give the history of THIS 2000s emo band in an essay from the collection "They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us."
Fall Out Boy
In a prose manuscript, this is usually demarcated with a symbol like a pound sign (#) after the conclusion of a scene or a thematic shift in the story.
Paragraph Break
A literary magazine that publishes work by undergraduates across all universities and is edited and produced by UWM students.
Furrow
Ursula K. Le Guin got inspiration for the name of this story when she was leaving Salem, Oregon and viewed the town's name in a rearview mirror.
The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin is a 2017 collection written by this American poet.
Terrance Hayes.
A piece of prose or lyrical writing that weaves together two strands of narrative, often memoir with researched factual information.
Braided Essay
Charles Baxter refers to this literary term as “the implied, the half-visible, and the unspoken. That subterranean realm with its overcharged psychological materials.”
Subtext
This term refers to the payment an author receives when a book is sold to a publishing house.
Advance
This nearly 1,000 page novel is written mostly in a single sentence, using the repetition of "the fact that..."
Ducks, Newburyport
"Turn" in Italian. A structural or thematic shift in a poem, sometimes a punchline.
Volta
Literary genre that blurs the lines between autobiography and fiction.
Autofiction
This is something an editor (or an English teacher) will tell you to look out for or revise if your story has two sentences like the following:
Chris sees the ghost and jumps out of his shoes. He thought he was a goner.
Tense agreement
"The Big Five" Publishing Companies
Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group, and Macmillan.