Different types of writing Flashcards
illustrated narratives
are based on a story, and use visual clues to tell that story. The narrative is usually represented with characters or some sort of action within the artwork
comics
a comedian, especially a professional one.
graphic novels
a novel in comic-strip format.
3 reasons why illustrated novels are important
helps kids with learning disabilities, inspires creativity
poetry
literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm
stanza
a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem
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
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 slow sentimental or romantic song.
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
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
At around 10 to 25 pages, that makes short stories much shorter than novels, with only a few approaching novella length.
personal essay
A personal essay is a short work of autobiographical nonfiction characterized by a sense of intimacy and a conversational manner.
non-fiction
writing that is based on facts, real events, and real people, such as biography or history.
4 types of non fiction writing
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 spoken or written representation or account of a person, object, or event.
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
manuscript, memorized, extemporaneous, and impromptu
creative writing
typically fiction or poetry, which displays imagination or invention
