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Types of Literature
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A category or type of literature--the four main ones are non-fiction fiction, poetry, & drama.
What is Genre?
100
The perspective or vantage point from which the story is told such as 1st Person or omniscient.
What is Point of View?
100
Stories created to explain the unexplainable.
What is a Myth?
100
The speaker or character who tells the story?
What is the Narrator?
100
Writing or speech used to create vivid impressions for the reader.
What is Figurative Language?
200
A story about a person's life written by someone else.
What is a Biography?
200
A feeling of curiosity about the outcome of events in a story.
What is Suspense?
200
Stories designed to teach a moral or lesson.
What is a Fable?
200
A character that shows MANY different traits, faults, and virtues.
What is a Round Character?
200
Figurative language where a non-human subject is given human characteristics.
What is Personification?
300
Writing that tells about real people, places, or events--it is "intended" to be TRUE.
What is Non-Fiction?
300
A story intended to be read on a symbolic level.
What is Allegory?
300
Short fiction that comes from the imagination of the writer.
What is a Short Story?
300
The character or thing that opposes the Protagonist--the bad guy.
What is the Antagonist?
300
The use of details about the customs and way of life in a specific place.
What is Local Color?
400
Writing that tells a story?
What is Narration?
400
The introduction of the central conflict in the story.
What is the Inciting Incident?
400
The ordinary form of writing--not poetry, not drama, not song.
What is Prose?
400
A character that is changed by the events in the story.
What is a Dynamic Character?
400
Word choice--the vocabulary used, vividness of language, and appropriateness of words.
What is Diction?
500
One of the four major genre's of literature--can be anything not in paragraph/prose or dramatic form.
What is Poetry?
500
Writing or speech that explains, informs or present information--in a story it is where the characters and setting are introduced.
What is the Exposition?
500
All writing that comes from the imagination of the writer. Although it may be based on real life, it is not true.
What is Fiction?
500
When the reader has to learn about a character's personality through that characters actions, thoughts, and dialogue.
What is Indirect Characterization?
500
The writer's attitude or feeling toward his/her audience and/or subject.
What is Tone?