different types of writing Flashcards
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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 reasons why illustrated novels are important
- Helps Kids with Learning Disabilities.
- Improves Visual Literacy and Vocabulary.
3.Enhances Social & Emotional Learning.
poetry
literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style 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 poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world.
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 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
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 memoirs
In general, there are three forms of memoirs: an anthology of life stories, a short book, and a personal essay
Anthology
a published collection of poems or other pieces of writing.
Short Book
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.”
