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18 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 drama | a form that uses dialogue to share its message and is meant to be performed in front of an audience |
| biography | a writer's account of some other person's life |
| autobiography | a writer's story of his or her own life |
| myth | a traditional story intended to explain a mystery of nature, religion, or culture. The goddesses and gods of mythology have supernatural powers, but the humans do not. |
| tall tale | a humorous, exaggerated story often based on the life of a real life person. The exaggerations build until the character does impossible things. |
| tragedy | literature in which the hero is destroyed because of some tragic flaw in his or her character |
| comedy | writing that deals with life in a humorous way, often poking fun at people's mistakes |
| poetry | a literary work that uses concise, often rhythmic language to express ideas or emotions |
| epic | a long poem about a hero or a group of people (folk epic) |
| allegory | a story in which the characters and action represent an idea or a truth about life |
| essay | a short piece of nonfiction that expresses the writer's opinion or shares information about a subject |
| fable | a short story that often uses talking animals as the main characters and teaches an obvious lesson or moral |
| fantasy | a short story set in an imaginary world in which the characters usually have supernatural powers or abilities |
| novel | book-length, fictional prose story |
| parable | a short story that explains a belief or moral principle |
| prose | literary work that uses the familiar spoken form of language, sentence after sentence |
| science fiction | writing based on real or imaginary science, and often set in the future |
| short story | can be read in one sitting, has only a few characters, and focuses on one problem or conflict |
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