different types of writing Flashcards
illustrated narratives
based on a story, and use visual clues to tell that story
comics
a magazine or book that contains a set of stories told in pictures with a small amount of writing
graphic novels
Collections of short stories that have been previously published as individual comic books
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
focus on a brief moment in time, juxtaposing two images, and creating a sudden sense of enlightenment
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
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
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
presents the facts about a person’s life including what the subject did and how he or she made a difference in the world
autobiography
an account of a person’s life written by that person.
anthology
a published collection of poems or other pieces of writing.
short book
A prose narrative midway between the novel and the short story in length and scope.
personal essay
a short work of autobiographical nonfiction characterized by a sense of intimacy and a conversational manner
non-fiction
prose writing that is based on facts, real events, and real people, such as biography or history.
