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GENRES
AUTHORS
LITERARY DEVICES
BASIC ELEMENTS
Extras
100
Someone writes about his or her life in this genre
an autobiography
100
Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare
100
'' The boy ran like the wind''.
A simile / comparaison
100
A person or an animal in a story
A character
100
Speech by one character
a monologue
200
The author writes about someonelse's life
What is a biography?
200
Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
200
''Life is a broken-wind bird that cannot fly''.
a metaphor
200
Place and time of the story
the setting
200
A conversation between two characters
A dialogue
300
In this genre, authors love to rhyme their words
poetry
300
Paper Towns
John Green
300
Something non human is given human characteristics
a personnification
300
Person who tells the story
The narrator
300
Brief work of fiction
a short story
400
The story takes place in the future. It might be about aliens or supernatural events
science fiction
400
The portrait of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wild
400
A deliberate exagération. '' It's a thousand degrees in this classroom''.
a hyperbole
400
The action that makes the story
The plot
400
The repetition of initial consonant sounds
An alliteration
500
A story meant to be acted on a stage
a play
500
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
500
A contradiction between what is said and what is meant, appearances and reality
Irony
500
The lesson the story teaches
the moral
500
The high point of interest or suspense
climax