different type of writing Flashcards
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illustrated narratives
Narrative illustrations are based on a story, and use visual clues to tell that story.
comics
a form of visual art consisting of images which are commonly combined with text, often in the form of speech balloons or image captions.
graphic novels
A graphic novel is a long-form, fictional work of sequential art.
3 reasons why illustrated are important?
1.You want to express a message.
2.You want to educate.
3.You want to attract attention – especially important in advertising a product.
poetry
literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience or a specific emotional response through language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound, and rhythm.
stanza
a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.
rhyme scheme
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
poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.
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 poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. Traditional ballads are typically of unknown authorship, having been passed on orally from one generation to the next.
acrostic
a poem, word puzzle, or other composition in which certain letters in each line form a word or words.
limerick
a humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming aabba, popularized by Edward Lear.
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 types of memoirs?
1.In general, 2.there are three forms of memoirs: an anthology of life stories,3. a short book, and a personal essay.
anthology
a published collection of poems or other pieces of writing.
short book
A piece of fiction shorter than 1,000 words
