What is a type of nonfiction that has elements of fiction and includes biographies, letters, essays, and reviews?
100
Short Story
What is a brief work of fiction?
100
stanzas
What are lines organized into units of meaning?
100
Downstage, nearest to the audience
What does the stage direction D mean?
100
cultural perspective
What is someone's view of the world referred to as?
200
Functional Text
What is a form of nonfiction that gives instructions, shows directions, explains rules, or provides other types of information that help you complete procedures?
200
Theme
What is a central message in a literary work?
200
refrain
What is a line or group of lines that is repeated at regular intervals in a poem?
200
Tragedy
What is a form of drama that involves the downfall of the main character; a character that may be admirable but has a fault that brings about his or her distruction?
200
univeral theme
What is a theme that is repeated across many cultures and over many time periods?
300
Central Idea
What is the key point in a work of literary nonfiction?
300
Conflict
What is a struggle between opposing forces, sometimes exteranl and sometines internal?
300
Alliteration
What is the repetition of consonant soundsi n the beginnings of words like slippery slope?
300
monologue
What is a long uninterrupted speech spoken by one character to another?
300
myths
What are tales that relate the actions of gods, goddesses and the heroes who interact with them?
400
Author's purpose
What is reason for writing nonfiction?
400
Plot
What is the sequence of events in a story?
400
Simile
What is a statement that uses the words like or as to compare two seemingly unlike things?
400
Dialogue
Refers to the words spoken by the characters, could include monologue, soliloquy, or aside
400
Hyperbole
What is a type of figurative language that uses exaggeration, either for comic efect or to express strong emotion?
500
Supporting Details
What are facts, statistics, expert statements, examples, observations, personal exeriences, anecdotes and analogies in a nonfiction text?
500
Third-Person Omniscient
"Ted heard someone approaching, but in the darkness, he had no idea it was a burglar." This example text is told from what point of view?
500
Connotation
consists of the ideas and feelings that word brings to mind
500
soliloquy
What is a speech in which a character is alone and reveals private thoughts?
500
stated themes
What are themes in folk literature that are stated directly at the end of a story as a moral or lesson?