Different types of writing Flashcards

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Illustrated Narratives

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

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Comics

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A comedian, especially a professional one.

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Graphic novels

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A novel in comic strip fomat.

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3 reasons why illustrated novels are important.

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1.Illustrated novels improve literacy skill
2.Help simultaneously develop verbal and visual literacy.
3.Provide young readers with an immediate vision of the character, setting, and mood of the story.

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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 division of a poem consisting of two or more lines arranged together as a unit.

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Rhyme Scheme

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

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Couplet

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A pair of end rhymed lines of verse that are self contained in grammatical structure and meaning.

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

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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.

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Memoir

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a historical account or biography written from personal knowledge or special sources.

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Biography

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

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Auto biography

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

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3 types of memoirs

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1.Personal essay
2.Short book
3.An anthology of life

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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 piece of fiction shorter than 1,000 words.

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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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prose writing that is based on facts, real events, and real people, such as biography or history.

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4 types of nonfiction writing

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1.Expository nonfiction
2.Narrative nonfiction
3.Persuasive nonfiction
4.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 spoken or written representation or account of a person, object, or event.

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Narrative

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

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Speeches

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

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4 examples of types of speeches

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1.informative
2.demonstrative
3.persuasive
4.Special occasion or entertaining

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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).