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Poetry
Drama
Genres
Figurative Language
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100
One of 3 major types of literature, the other being prose, and drama.
What is Poetry?
100
Speaker or character who tells the story, and explains stage directions.
What is a Narrator?
100
Prose writing that tells about imaginary characters or events.
What is Fiction?
100
A figure of speech that compares 2 things using "like" or "as" to make a direct comparison.
What is a Simile?
100
The state of uncertainty of whats going to happen.
What is Suspense?
200
A group of lines in a poem.
What is a Stanza?
200
A section of uninterrupted action in the act of drama.
What is a Scene?
200
Prose writing hat is based on facts, real events, & real people, such as a biography or history.
What is Non-Fiction?
200
Repetition of initial consonant sounds.
What is Alliteration?
200
A long work of fiction.
What is a Novel?
300
The imaginary voice in a poem.
What is a Speaker?
300
A person or animal that takes part in the action of a play, or any literary work.
What is a Character?
300
A highly imaginative writing that contains elements not found in real life.
What is Fantasy?
300
The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage.
What is Mood?
300
The sequence of events in which each event results from a previous one and causes the next.
What is Plot?
400
A regularly repeated line in a poem or song.
What is a refrain?
400
The form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group.
What is Dialect?
400
A fictional tale that explains the actions of gods or heroes or the origins of elements of nature.
What is a Myth?
400
A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
What is a Metaphor?
400
A conversation between characters.
What is Dialogue?
500
A 3 line Japanese verse form. The 1st and 3rd line both have 5 syllables. The 2nd line has 7. This poem is usually based on nature.
What is a Haiku?
500
A story involving conflict or contrast with opposing characters.
What is Drama?
500
a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.
What is Genre?
500
a literary compound of composition, which encompasses the attitudes toward the subject and toward the audience implied in a literary work.
What is Tone?
500
The outcome of the conflict in a plot.
What is the Resolution?