different types of writing Flashcards

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illustrated narratives

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based on a story, and use visual clues to tell that story.

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comics

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a comedian, especially a professional one

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Graphic novels

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a novel in comic-strip format.

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3 reasons why illustrated novels are important

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  1. Helps Kids with Learning Disabilities.
  2. Improves Visual Literacy and Vocabulary.
    3.Enhances Social & Emotional Learning.
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poetry

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literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm.

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Stanza

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a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.

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Rhyme Scheme

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the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.

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Couplet

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two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.

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Tercet

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a set or group of three lines of verse rhyming together or connected by rhyme with an adjacent tercet.

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Quatrain

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a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes.

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Haiku

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a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world.

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Free verse

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poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.

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Sonnet

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a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.

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Ballad

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a slow sentimental or romantic song.

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Acrostic

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a poem, word puzzle, or other composition in which certain letters in each line form a word or words.

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Limerick

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a humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming aabba, popularized by Edward Lear.

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Elegy

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a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.

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Ode

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a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter.

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Memoir

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a historical account or biography written from personal knowledge or special sources.

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Biography

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an account of someone’s life written by someone else.

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Autobiography

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an account of a person’s life written by that person.

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3 types memoirs

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In general, there are three forms of memoirs: an anthology of life stories, a short book, and a personal essay

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Anthology

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a published collection of poems or other pieces of writing.

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Short Book

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At around 10 to 25 pages, that makes short stories much shorter than novels, with only a few approaching novella length. A piece of fiction shorter than 1,000 words is considered a “short short story” or “flash fiction,” and anything less than 300 words is rightfully called “microfiction.”

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Personal essay

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A personal essay is a short work of autobiographical nonfiction characterized by a sense of intimacy and a conversational manner. Also called a personal statement. A type of creative nonfiction, the personal essay is ‘all over the map,’ according to Annie Dillard.

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non-fiction

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

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4 types of non-fiction writing

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There are many different types of nonfiction, but they broadly fit into these categories: expository nonfiction, narrative nonfiction, persuasive nonfiction, and descriptive nonfiction.

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expository

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intended to explain or describe something

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persuasive

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good at persuading someone to do or believe something through reasoning or the use of temptation.

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description

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a spoken or written representation or account of a person, object, or event.

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narrative

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a spoken or written account of connected events; a story.

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speeches

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the expression of or the ability to express thoughts and feelings by articulate sounds.

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4 examples of speeches

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The four basic types of speeches are: to inform, to instruct, to entertain, and to persuade. These are not mutually exclusive of one another.

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creative writing

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Creative writing is an expressive form of literature; one which demands you to use your own creativity, imagination and story to portray a particular message, emotion, or plot. It defies the traditional bounds of other forms of writing and is completely subjective to our own preferences and experiences.