different types of writing

Question 1

Illustrated Narratives

Answer 1

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

Question 2

comics

Answer 2

a form of visual art consisting of images which are commonly combined with text, often in the form of speech balloons or image captions.

Question 3

graphic novels

Answer 3

Graphic Novel” is a format, not a genre. Graphic novels can be fiction, non-fiction, history, fantasy, or anything in-between. Graphic novels are similar to comic books because they use sequential art to tell a story. Unlike comic books, graphic novels are generally stand-alone stories with more complex plots.

Question 4

3 reasons why illustrated novels are important

Answer 4

. Graphic novels are fast paced and fun! · 2. Stunning art is a feast for your eyes · 3. You just might learn something! · 4. Graphic novels make you smarter

Question 5

define poetry

Answer 5

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.

Question 6

define stanza

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a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme

Question 7

define rhyme scheme

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

Question 8

define couplet

Answer 8

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

Question 9

define tercet

Answer 9

a unit or group of three lines of verse:

Question 10

define quatrain

Answer 10

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

Question 11

define haiku

Answer 11

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

Question 12

define free verse

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poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.
“a poem written in free verse”

Question 13

define 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.

Question 14

define ballad

Answer 14

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a slow sentimental or romantic song.
“he admitted that he preferred recording ballads to his trademark funk”
2.
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.
“a traditional Irish folk ballad”

Question 15

define acrostic

Answer 15

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

Question 16

define limerick

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

Question 17

define elegy

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

Question 18

define 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.
a poem meant to be sung.

Question 19

define memoir

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a historical account or biography written from personal knowledge or special sources.
“in 1924 she published a short memoir of her husband”

Question 20

define biography

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

Question 21

define autobiography

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

Question 22

3 types of memoirs

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an anthology of life stories, a short book, and a personal essay

Question 23

define anthology

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a published collection of poems or other pieces of writing.

Question 24

define short book

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A piece of fiction shorter than 1,000 words

Question 25

define personal essay

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a short work of autobiographical nonfiction characterized by a sense of intimacy and a conversational manner

Question 26

define non fiction

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prose writing that is based on facts, real events, and real people, such as biography or history. "high on the bestseller lists of nonfiction"

Question 27

4 types of non fiction writing

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expository nonfiction, narrative nonfiction, persuasive nonfiction, and descriptive nonfiction.

Question 28

define expository

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ntended to explain or describe something. "formal expository prose"

Question 29

define persuasive

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good at persuading someone to do or believe something through reasoning or the use of temptation. "an informative and persuasive speech"

Question 30

define description

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a spoken or written representation or account of a person, object, or event. "people who had seen him were able to give a description"

Question 31

define narrative

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spoken or written account of connected events; a story. "the hero of his modest narrative"

Question 32

define speeches

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the expression of or the ability to express thoughts and feelings by articulate sounds. "he was born deaf and without the power of speech"

Question 33

4 examples or types of speeches

Answer 33

manuscript, memorized, extemporaneous, and impromptu.