Literary Terms

What type of nonfiction writing... uses comedy to achieve the author's purpose?

Within poetry and other types of writings, what is it called when descriptions appeal to the five senses?

What type of nonfiction writing... includes the writer's personal insights about an event/experience?

What is a short nonfiction work written on a particular subject? Introduction, body, and conclusion.

Uses the words like or as to compare two unlike things.

What type of nonfiction writing...uses details and vivid descriptions to enhance a story?

In a poem, what do you call the groups of words?

Chronological means telling the story in random order

The words spoken by the actors.

What gives instructions, show directions, explain rules or provide other types of information that help you?

What do you call a blank line within poems?

A type of story where something is invented or imagined; fake.

What is written communication from one person to another?

An account of someone's life, written by someone else.

What type of nonfiction writing....offers an opinion and supports it?

Which is NOT a type of functional text?

Personification is...

The units of action in the drama.

Drama is....

Problem and solution describes a problem and does NOT offer a solution.

A type of writing that is based on facts, real events, and real people, such as biography or history.

What is the key point in a work of literature called?

Spatial is relating to or occupying space

What do you call the use of any element of language that is used more than once?

The author's central idea. The life lesson or the lesson the story is trying to teach.

What type of nonfiction writing... tells a story about a real-life experience?

What do you call the use of words that imitate sounds? EX: boom, bang.

What do you call lines are organized in units of meaning?

What type of nonfiction writing...explains an idea by breaking it down?

The instructions of how the actors should perform the drama.

Cause and effect examines the relationship between events, explaining how they relate.

Compare and contrast analyzes how a story transitions from a beginning to an end

Type of writing that uses the sounds, rhythms and meanings of words to describe the world in striking ways.

The main reason for writing something. To entertain, persuade, inform.

Which is NOT a type of literary nonfiction?

A telling of a person's life, written by that person. Chronological order.

Describes one thing as if it were something else.

Within poetry, what do you call a particular pattern of rhymes? EX: ABBAABBA

The drama is divided into parts within an Act.

What is the repetition of consonant sounds in the beginning of words? EX: Peter piper picked peppers.