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ARMT ST. 3
Literary terms that cover ARMT ST. 3
Term | Definition |
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nonfiction | a text that is based on real people and real places and contains facts and truth |
Biography | a nonfiction text written about someone's life written by someone else |
Autobiography | a nonfiction text written about someone's life by that person |
fiction | a creative, imaginery text that contains characters, a setting, and a plot |
play | a text written to be performed on stage |
novel | a long, fictional text |
Short story | a short, fictional text |
Science fiction | A story with a future-based plot Often based on a scientific theory, like aliens |
Realistic fiction | A story set in the present that seems true May appear to be a nonfiction account |
Historical fiction | A story written about a period of history Often includes well-researched historical truths |
Folktale | A story passed down in a culture Often explains events in nature |
Tall tale | an exaggerated story |
Myth | A very old story told to explain something about nature or human behavior Often contains Greek and Roman gods and heroes |
Legend | An old story that is told as if it really happened, but is unlikely to be true Usually focused on an extraordinary person |
Parable | a brief story or poem that teaches a moral or lesson; Mainly uses people as characters |
Fable | A brief story that teaches a moral or religious lesson; Usually has speaking animals, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature as characters. |
Poem | Descriptive language to communicate meaning in an effective and powerful way. |
Rhyme scheme | the pattern of rhymes in the poem |
Rhythm | repeated patterns of sound |
Refrain | lines that are repeated. |
stanza | series of lines arranged together in a group or section. |
Line | like a sentence but in poetry |
Quatrain | a four-lined stanza |
Couplet | two consective lines of poetry that rhyme |
ballad | A poem that tells a story; Meant to be sung |
Lyric poem | A relatively short poem, typically rhyming, with one speaker who expresses thought and feeling |
Ode | A lyric poem of praise for something or someone |
Elegy | A poem that expresses sadness over death or the passing of time |
Sonnet | A rhymed poem with one speaker and consists of only 14 lines |
Epic poem | A poem with a long plot relating the adventures of a hero |
Limerick | A rhyming five-line poem with a rhyme scheme in which the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme and the third and fourth lines rhyme |
Haiku | A Japanese form of unrhymed poetry made up of three lines The first and last lines contain five syllables each, and the middle line contains seven syllables |