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A main literary genre that features imaginary characters and events that may be based on actual events of persons
Fiction
Nonfiction
Drama
Poetry
Fable
A main literary genre which contents are all based on facts and actual events.
Fiction
Nonfiction
Drama
Poetry
Fable
A main literary genre which features a style of writing that arranges words in a metrical pattern, and often in rhymed verse
Fiction
Nonfiction
Drama
Poetry
Fable
A main literary genre where literary pieces are stories, songs, myths, and proverbs which are passed orally from generation to generation before being recorded in writing
Fiction
Nonfiction
Drama
Poetry
Fable
A subgenre of fiction which include stories that evolve around trying to uncover a bizarre happening or an unknown cause to a seemingly unexplainable event
Fantasy
Humor
Horror
Mystery
Science fiction
A subgenre of fiction that is meant to induce laughter, fun, or amusement
Fantasy
Humor
Horror
Mystery
Science fiction
A subgenre of fiction characterized by made-up stories that explore what-ifs and the imaginative potentials of science and technologies in relation to social changes
Fantasy
Humor
Horror
Mystery
Science fiction
A subgenre of fiction characterized by made-up stories that accurately portray life during a particular period in history but did not actually happen
Historical fiction
Contemporary fiction
Realistic fiction
Short story
Science fiction
A subgenre of fiction categorizing made-up story that did not happen but has the possibility of happening in real life as it depicts story elements that are “true to life”
Historical fiction
Contemporary fiction
Realistic fiction
Short story
Science fiction
A subgenre of fiction with stories which supports only one story plot but not any subplots
Historical fiction
Contemporary fiction
Realistic fiction
Short story
Science fiction
A classification of nonfiction where newspaper editorials, argumentative essays, and speech, fall under
Expository Nonfiction
Persuasive Nonfiction
Descriptive Nonfiction
Creative Nonfiction
Research Nonfiction
This is factual writing which primary purpose is to directly illustrate events, phenomena, or settings, such as picture books, process explanations, photojournalism, travelogue.
Expository Nonfiction
Persuasive Nonfiction
Descriptive Nonfiction
Creative Nonfiction
Research Nonfiction
A narrative on the author's life (from birth to death or present) that are written by the author himself/herself.
Biography
Autobiography
Memoirs
Personal essays
Magazine feature articles
A type of creative nonfiction that is written by somebody famous, about their life and experiences
Biography
Autobiography
Memoirs
Personal essays
Magazine feature articles
The place and time in which the story takes place.
Character
Setting
Dialogue
Conflict
Theme
The part of the story where characters speak to one another.
Character
Setting
Dialogue
Conflict
Theme
The central idea or concept of a story; the “big ideas” that arise from the narrative such as family, love, courage, revenge, friendship, morality, etc.
Character
Setting
Dialogue
Conflict
Theme
The author’s unique way of writing the story; the writer’s diction, syntax, and voice and tone
Plot or narrative
Point-of-view (POV)
Style or Strategy
Tone or mood
Rhetorical devices/techniques
Tools employed by writers to make the readers understand, appreciate, and feel certain emotions or impressions
Plot or narrative
Point-of-view (POV)
Style or Strategy
Tone or mood
Rhetorical devices/techniques
The perspective from which the story is told, the person who tells the story
Plot or narrative
Point-of-view (POV)
Style or Strategy
Tone or mood
Rhetorical devices/techniques
A common narrative theme where children, teens, or young adults go through events that lead to their maturity and learning of valuable life lessons
Good and evil
Circle of life
Heroism
Survival
Coming of age
A common narrative theme of how life begins with birth and ends with death
Good and evil
Circle of life
Heroism
Survival
Coming of age
A common narrative theme about characters battling nature, or life and death
Good and evil
Circle of life
Heroism
Survival
Coming of age
Which among the following figures of speech falls under the structural category?
alliteration
chiasmus
consonance
metonymy
oxymoron
Which among the following figures of speech falls under neither the structural nor the sound-based category?
alliteration
chiasmus
consonance
isocolon
metonymy
Which among the following figures of speech falls under the sound-based category?
assonance
hyperbole
irony
isocolon
personification
Which among the following figures of speech falls under neither the structural nor the sound-based category?
alliteration
antithesis
epanalepsis
euphemism
parallelism
The figure of speech which uses an inoffensive term instead of its explicitly offensive equivalent.
alliteration
antithesis
epanalepsis
euphemism
parallelism
Giving human qualities or abilities to an inanimate object or abstract concept
apostrophe
hyperbole
oxymoron
paradox
personification
A kind of metaphor in which the part of an object represents the whole.
metaphor
metonymy
pun
simile
synecdoche
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