Literary Genres
A division or type of literature.
What is genre?
The sequence of events in which each event results from a previous one and causes the next.
What is plot?
A writer's choice and use of specific words.
What is word choice?
Poets use these to create musical effects, reinforce meaning, develop tone, and emphasize the sound relationships among words.
What are sound devices?
A group of lines of poetry that are usually similar in length and pattern and a separated by spaces. This is like a paragraph of poetry- it states and develops a single main idea.
What is stanza?
A type of autobiography that focuses on a particularly meaningful period or series of events in the author's life.
What is memoir?
The part of a story that introduces the characters, setting, and basic situation. It is also called the introduction.
What is exposition?
The writer's attitude toward his or her audience and subject. This can often be described by a single adjective.
What is tone?
The repetition of initial consonant sounds. Writers use this to draw attention to certain words or ideas, to imitate sounds, and to create musical effects.
What is alliteration?
A logical assumption made about information in a text that is not directly stated. Prior knowledge and key details are used to make these about implied ideas.
What is inference?
A type of writing in which real events, places, or people are adapted into a fictional story.
What is historical fiction?
The high point in the action of the plot. It is the moment of greatest tension, when the outcome of the plot hangs in the balance. It is also called the turning point.
What is climax?
The feeling that the writer is trying to evoke in their readers.
What is mood?
The use of words that imitate sounds. This can help put the reader in the activity of a poem.
What is onomatopoeia?
The author's main reason for writing. Texts are written to inform, to persuade, to entertain, to describe, and/or to express the author's point of view. In many cases, an author has more than one of these for writing.
What is author's purpose?
One of the three major types of literature. Most make use of highly concise, musical, and emotionally charged language. Many also make use of imagery, figurative language, and sound devices such as rhythm, rhyme, repetition, and onomatopoeia. Major types of this include lyric, narrative, and concrete.
What is poetry?
A struggle between opposing forces. This is one of the most important elements of stories, novels, and plays because it causes the action.
What is conflict?
The dictionary meaning of a word, independent of other associations that the word may have.
What is denotation?
The use, more than once, of any element of language- a sound, word, phrase, clause, or sentence. It is used in both prose and poetry.
What is repetition?
Words that take on different meanings depending on the context. Some examples include the following: patient, date, & suit.
What are multiple-meaning words?
The ordinary form of written language. Most writing that is not poetry, drama, or song is considered to be this. It is one of the major genres of literature and occurs in two forms- fiction and nonfiction.
What is prose?
The outcome of the conflict in a plot. It is also called the denouement.
What is resolution?
The set of ideas association with a word, in addition to its explicit meaning. This could be personal based on individual experience.
What is connotation?
"Method to the Madness" is an example of this.
What is alliteration?
Hints found within a sentence, paragraph, or passage that a reader can use to understand the meanings of new or unfamiliar words.
What are context clues?