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| Genre | specifies the types or categories into which literary works are grouped. |
| Title | the identifying name or heading of a book, play, film, work of art, or document |
| Structure | the organization of a piece of writing |
| Style | a writer's typical use of formality, figurative language, rhythm, grammatical patterns, etc |
| Thesis | an attitude or position a writer or speaker attempts to prove or support |
| Anthology | a collection of literary selections |
| Allegory | a story that has two levels of meaning |
| Fiction | writing created from the author's imagination |
| Folklore | the traditional beliefs, legends, sayings, customs, etc of a people |
| Folktale | a story that is handed down among the people of a region |
| Historical fiction | a fictional work related to history |
| Realistic fiction | a work set in the real world |
| Science fiction | writing that tells about imaginary events that involve science or technology |
| Nonfiction | writing about real people, things, places and ideas |
| Novel | a work of fiction which focuses on several ideas and is much longer and more complex than a short story |
| Lampoon | a piece of strongly satirical writing |
| Memoir | an account of experiences that the writer has lived through |
| Farce | an exaggerated comedy |
| Expository Essay | explains or informs. |
| Persuasive Essay | tries to convince readers to do something or to accept the writer's point-of-view |
| Essay | short nonfiction work about one subject |
| Descriptive Essay | the writer uses images that appeal to the five senses to create a vivid picture or a person |
| Fable | a brief story, usually with animal charactrs that teachers a lesson about human nature |
| Fairy Tale | a type of children's story in which magic plays a central role |
| Fantasy | a highly imaginative writing that contains elements not found in real life |
| Documentary | presents facts objectively without editorializing or inserting fictional matter |
| Myth | an anonymous, traditional story which attempts to explain the meaning of a natural phenomena |
| Parable | a short narrative designed to convey a moral truth |
| Parody | ia form of literature intended to mock a particular literary work or its style |
| Editorial | a newspaper or magazine article that gives opinions of the writer |
| Autobiography | a work of non-fiction in which a person write his or her own story |
| Biography | a work of non-fiction in which the story of a real person's life is written by someone other than the subject |
| Short Story | a story which varies in length and usually develops a single central theme or impression and is limited in scope and number of characters |
| Anecdote | a brief story told to entertain or to make a point |
| Alliteration | the practice of beginning several consecutive or neighboring words with the same sound |
| Allusion | a reference to a mythologica, literary, or historical person, place or thing with which the reader is assumed to be familiar |
| Anachronism | anything existing or happening at other than its proper or historical time |
| Analogy | a comparison of something familiar with something unfamiliar to explain or clarify the unknown |
| Aphorism | a wise and witty saying |
| Apostrophe | a form of personification in which the absent or dead are spoken to as if present and the inanimate |
| Archetype | an image, MOTIF, or thematic pattern that has recurred regularly in history, literature or folkways |
| Tragedy | portrays a hero as a person of significance with admirable qualities we respect whose life ends in torture or death |
