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vocab stuff
vocab stuff
vocab stuff
vocab stuff
vocab stuff
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book length, fictional prose narrative prose
What is a novel?
100
a play where the main character suffers a downfall
What is tragedy?
100
group of lines forming a unit in a poem
What is stanza?
100
repetition of sounds at end of words that appear close to each other in a poem
What is rhyme???
100
form of everyday literature
What is prose??
200
boigraphical or autobiographical narrative emphasizing a narrator's personal experience
What is memoir??
200
writing or speech that tells a story
What is narration??
200
story intended to be performed by actors on stage before movie or tv cameras
What is drama??
200
form of literary expression that differs from prose in emphasizing the line as a unit of composition
What is poetry??
200
traditional story, based on history or an actual hero, that is passed down orally
What is legend??
300
a brief, fictional narrative in prose
What is short story??
300
brief, entertaining story based on a single interesting or humorous incident or event
What is anecdote??
300
3 line, japanese poem
What is haiku??
300
a light, humorous poem with a regular metrical scheme and rhyme scheme of aabba
What is limerick??
300
verse that tells a story
What is narrative poetry??
400
a unit of language into which a poem or play is divided
what is a line???
400
poetry that has no fixed pattern of meter, rhyme, length, or stanza arrangement
What is free verse???
400
poetry that uses the discourse of the characters involved to tell a story or portray a situation
What is dramatic poetry???
400
a genre of fictional writing used to explore social and political structures in 'a dark, nightmare world'
What is dystopian fiction???
400
a society where things go wrong
What is Utopian fiction???