The time (time period, time of day, season, etc.) and place (which country, which universe, which room in a house, etc.) of a story - when and where it happens.
What is setting?
100
Literature in verse form.
What is poetry?
100
When an author tells his or her own life story, we refer to that work by this name.
What is autobiography?
100
This type of speech involves a single character speaking at length without interruption.
What is monologue?
100
This is the name for the repetition of ending sounds of words.
What is rhyme?
200
This is the way we describe a character who undergoes significant changes over the course of a story's telling.
What is a dynamic character?
200
This type of writing is meant to convey information, persuade readers, or simply to entertain readers with respect to the real (and not invented or made up) world
What is nonfiction?
200
This type of writing is intended to provide knowledge and to educate. This type of writing includes newspapers, instruction manuals, workplace writing, and professional journals.
What is informational text?
200
These are the instructions for where an actor ought to stand and how they ought to move.
What are stage directions?
200
This is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is rhythm?
300
These are the five elements of plot.
What are exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?
300
This type of literature is a brief work of fiction and usually focuses on one protagonist and one conflict.
What is a short story?
300
This type of writing focuses on how something feels, smells, sounds, or tastes.
What is a descriptive essay?
300
In this type of play, the protagonist (main character) suffers a major downfall
What is a tragedy?
300
This type of figurative language gives human characteristics to nonhuman objects or entities.
What is personification?
400
The key message or abstract meaning of the story. The insight a story offers into real life.
What is theme?
400
This type of literature usually originates from the oral tradition. These stories express the hopes, fears, dreams, loves, and values of the cultures that tell them.
What is folk literature?
400
This type of writing attempts to convince readers to take a certain action or to accept the author's point of view.
What is a persuasive essay?
400
This is a long narrative poem about the deeds of gods or heroes in a war or in their travels.
What is an epic?
400
This type of figurative language involves comparing unlike things without using the words "like" or "as".
What is metaphor?
500
In this particular point of view, the narrator or storyteller is not a part of the action. He or she does not participate.
What is third-person narration?
500
This type of literature is designed to be performed by actors. The script consists of dialogue, performed by multiple actors, and monologue, performed by a single actor.
What is drama? (also accept dramatic literature)
500
This type of writing focuses on an author's thoughts or memories on a topic of particular importance.
What is a reflective essay?
500
This is a widely told story about the past that may or may not have a foundation in fact. This type of story usually reflects cultural values.
What is a legend?
500
This type of poem expresses the thoughts and feelings of the speaker in a musical way.