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Any info that is part of larger text that assists a reader in finding info.
functional text features
(table of contents or glossary) signs, directions, letters.
personal essay an essay that tells the writer's personal opinion, beliefs, or ideas about a subject
speech oral expression of language
a type of writing in which the author states a personal belief and
opinion piece
tries to persuade others to agree
biography story of a person's life written by another person
autobiography An account of a person's life written by that person
fiction A story that is not true or is made up
Narrative a poem that tells a story
Ballads Song like poems that tell a story, often dealing with adventure and romance
Epics long poems that tell the stories of heroes
lyrical expressing a poet's inner feelings; emotional; full of images; song-like
A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted
Ode
feelings toward the subject.
Sonnets 14 line poems
haiku poem Japanes verse three line of 5, 7, 5 syllables (Metered poetry)
Limerick A five line poem in which lines 1, 2 and 5 rhyme and lines 3 and 4 rhyme.
A category or grouping of writers whose works have similar subject matter,
Literary Movement writing
style, conventions, objectives, or ideas, often reflecting the time
period in which they wrote.
a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th
Romanticism
centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization
a term for the bold new experimental styles and forms that swept
Moderism
the arts during the first third of the twentieth century.
general term currently used to describe literature written since the
contemporary literature
end of the Second World War in 1945
Postcolonialism the field that studies the cultural legacies of colonialism and imperialism
genre of art and literature and especially architecture in reaction
Post Modernism
against principles and practices of established modernism
Meter (when reading) the repetition or the stressing of words or phrases