English Flashcards

Question

short story

Answer 1

brief fictional prose narrative that is shorter than a novel and that usually deals with only a few characters.

Answer 2

fictitious prose narrative of book length, typically representing character and action with some degree of realism.

Answer 3

short novel or long short story.

Answer 4

short piece of writing on a particular subject.

Answer 5

an account of someone's life written by someone else

Answer 6

the biography of a person narrated by that person : a usually written account of a person's life in their own words.

Answer 7

book in which one keeps a daily record of events and experiences

Answer 8

consisting of official pieces of written, printed, or other matter.

Answer 9

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

Answer 10

a short piece of music, usually with words.

Answer 11

fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of 14 lines that are typically 5-foot iambics rhyming according to a prescribed scheme

Answer 12

short songs and verses often read or sung to, or by, young children.

Answer 13

humorous poem five lines long in which the first, second, and fifth lines have one rhyme and the third and fourth another

Answer 14

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

Answer 15

poem or stanza composed of five lines.

Answer 16

poem expressing the writer's thoughts and feelings about a particular person or subject, usually written to that person or subject:

Answer 17

a song or poem lamenting one who is dead

Answer 18

specific type of Japanese poem which has 17 syllables divided into three lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables

Answer 19

poem that tells a story of adventure, of romance, or of a hero, that is suitable for singing, and that usually has stanzas of four lines with a rhyme on the second and fourth lines

Answer 20

long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the history of a nation.

Answer 21

told in metrical poetry, or verse. Another definition is a story told in rhythmic poetry.

Answer 22

poetry that does not rhyme and does not have a regular rhythm.

Answer 23

refers to poetry written in unrhymed but metered lines, almost always iambic pentameter.

Answer 24

short poem, descriptive of rustic life,

Answer 25

short saying or poem that expresses an idea in a smart, funny way

Answer 26

composition usually in verse in which sets of letters (such as the initial or final letters of the lines) taken in order form a word or phrase or a regular sequence of letters of the alphabet

Answer 27

very sad event or situation, especially one involving death or suffering

Answer 28

play, movie, etc., of light and humorous character with a happy or cheerful ending