different types of writing Flashcards
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
personal essay
a short work of autobiographical nonfiction characterized by a sense of intimacy and a conversational manner
non fiction
a true story
4 types of nonfiction writings
expository nonfiction, narrative nonfiction, persuasive nonfiction, and descriptive nonfiction.
expository
intended to explain or describe something.
persuasive
good at persuading someone to do or believe something through reasoning or the use of temptation.
description
a definition about a word or term
narrative
a spoken or written account of connected events; a story.
speeches
the expression of or the ability to express thoughts and feelings by articulate sounds.
4 examples of types of speeches
to inform, to instruct, to entertain, and to persuade
creative writing
writing, typically fiction or poetry, which displays imagination or invention (often contrasted with academic or journalistic writing)
