different types of writing Flashcards
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illustrated narratives
pictures that help tell a story
comics
visual art consisting of images combined with texts
graphic novels
a novel in comic-strip format.
3 reasons why illustarted novels are important
Improves Visual Literacy and Vocabulary.
Inspires Creativity.
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; poems collectively or as a genre of literature.
stanza
a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.
rhyme schene
a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a 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 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
meditative lyric poem lamenting the death of a public personage or of a friend or loved one
ode
A formal, often ceremonious lyric poem that addresses and often celebrates a person, place, thing, or idea
memoir
an autobiography or a written account of one’s memory of certain events or people,
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
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
a short book