34 Flashcards
(34 cards)
illustrated narratives
based on a story, and use visual clues to tell that story
comics
a comedian, especially a professional one.
graphic novels
a novel in comic-strip format.
3 reason
provide young readers with an immediate vision of the characters, setting, and mood of the story
poetry
literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm; poems collectively or as a genre of literature.
stanza
a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.
RS
the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.
couplet
two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.
tercet
a set or group of three lines of verse rhyming together or connected by rhyme with an adjacent tercet.
quatrain
a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes.
haiku
a Japanese poetic form that consists of three lines, with five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the third.
free verse
anything
sonnet
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
ballad
a slow sentimental or romantic song.
acrostic
a poem, word puzzle, or other composition in which certain letters in each line form a word or words.
limerick
is a form of verse, usually humorous and frequently rude, in five-line, predominantly anapestic trimeter with a strict rhyme scheme of AABBA, in which the first, second and fifth line rhyme, while the third and fourth lines are shorter and share a different rhyme.
elegy
a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.
ode
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.
memoir
a historical account or biography written from personal knowledge or special sources.
biography
an account of someone’s life written by someone else.
autobiography
an account of a person’s life written by that person.
3 memoirs
anthology short book personal essay
anthology
a published collection of poems or other pieces of writing.
short book
A piece of fiction shorter than 1,000 words