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Literature Genres
Reading Strategy
Story Elements
Types of Lit. p.57
Punctuation
100
a made-up story
What is fiction?
100
what you can do to get a basic sense of the topic of a piece of writing
What is previewing/skimming?
100
where and when a story takes place
What is plot?
100
a work on nonfiction that gives the history of a person's life and is written by that person
What is autobiography?
100
a combination of two words into one (ex: don't)
What is a contraction?
200
writing that tells about real peopple, places and events
What is nonfiction?
200
to make an educated guess based on incomplete information
What is infer?
200
the people who do things in the story
What are characters?
200
a long piece of prose fiction
What is a novel?
200
the puncutation used in a contraction
What is an apostrophe?
300
writing that is meant to be acted out
What is drama?
300
judgments you make after adding up all the evidence
What are conclusions?
300
the most suspenseful part of a story
What is the climax?
300
a short piece of prose (not poetry) fiction
What is a short story?
300
When using dialogue, you must begin a new paragraph for each _________
What is new speaker?
400
often written using line breaks / can have rhyme, rhythm, and stanzas
What is poetry?
400
a hint about something that will happen later in the story
What is forshadowing?
400
the end of the story
What is the resolution?
400
a piece of prose intended to be performed
What is drama?
400
the punctuation used after the greeting in a business letter
What is a colon?
500
ficton, nonfiction, and drama (NOT POETRY)
What is prose?
500
an interruption of the action to explain events that happened earlier
What is flashback?
500
the part of the story in which the setting is usually described
What is the exposition?
500
a short, nonfiction piece of writing, usually concentrating of a single subject and presenting the author's personal views and observations
What is an essay?
500
this piece of punctuation indicates a break in thought
What is a dash?