different types of writing Flashcards

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illustrated narratives

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pictures that help tell a story

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comics

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visual art consisting of images combined with texts

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3
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graphic novels

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a novel in comic-strip format.

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3 reasons why illustarted novels are important

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Improves Visual Literacy and Vocabulary.
Inspires Creativity.
Enhances Social & Emotional Learning.

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poetry

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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.

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stanza

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a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.

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rhyme schene

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a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.

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couplet

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

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tercet

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a set or group of three lines of verse rhyming together or connected by rhyme with an adjacent tercet.

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quatrain

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

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haiku

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

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free verse

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poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.

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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.

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ballad

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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.

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acrostic

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

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16
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limerick

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

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elegy

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meditative lyric poem lamenting the death of a public personage or of a friend or loved one

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ode

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A formal, often ceremonious lyric poem that addresses and often celebrates a person, place, thing, or idea

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memoir

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an autobiography or a written account of one’s memory of certain events or people,

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biography

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

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autobiography

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

22
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3 types of memoirs

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

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anthology

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a published collection of poems or other pieces of writing.

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short book

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a short book

25
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personal essay

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

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non fiction

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a true story

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4 types of nonfiction writings

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

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expository

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intended to explain or describe something.

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persuasive

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good at persuading someone to do or believe something through reasoning or the use of temptation.

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description

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a definition about a word or term

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narrative

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a spoken or written account of connected events; a story.

32
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speeches

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the expression of or the ability to express thoughts and feelings by articulate sounds.

33
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4 examples of types of speeches

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to inform, to instruct, to entertain, and to persuade

34
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creative writing

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writing, typically fiction or poetry, which displays imagination or invention (often contrasted with academic or journalistic writing)