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This is a word that means ‘type’ or ‘category’.

What is ‘genre’?

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LoveLove is not a thing to understand.

Love is not a thing to feel. Love is not a thing to give and receive.

Love is a thing only to become And eternally be.

What is poetry?

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Acts, lines, scenes.

What is drama?

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These are the sections in a long novel.

What are chapters?

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These are also called ‘plays’.

What are dramas?

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Egypt, 1930. The interior of an Egyptian tomb, discovered only weeks ago. Veronica and Rodney stare at a sarcophagus.Rodney and Veronica are in the mummy's tomb. They stare at the sarcophagus.

RODNEY: Well, here's the sarcophawhatchacallit. Shall we find out what all the fuss is about?

VERONICA: But the mummy, it came to life, I swear!

RODNEY: Now, now, doll-I'll protect you. Let's open it up.

VERONICA: I've seen enough corpses to last a lifetime.

RODNEY: Then I'll do it.

VERONICA: Rodney, why did you bring your mother to this wretched place?

RODNEY: (Opening the sarcophagus.) It's empty!

What is a drama?

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Chapters, plot, conflicts.

What is a novel?

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This is what you call the lines of dialogue in a drama –

a “s_ _ _ _ t”

What is a script?

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This is like my diary.

What is an autobiography?

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“My father and mother should have stayed in New York where they met and married and where I was born. Instead, they returned to Ireland when I was four, my brother, Malachy, three, the twins, Oliver and Eugene, barely one, and my sister, Margaret, dead and gone.

What is an autobiography?

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Stanza, line, rhyme.

What is poetry?

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This includes a conflict, rising action, a climax, and resolution.

It is part of short stories and novels.

What is a plot?

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You can call this a chapter book.

What is a novel?

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What is a biography?

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Life story, he, she, his, her.

What is a biography?

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Biographies and autobiographies are always

this, because they are always true stories.

What is non-fiction?

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A story about someone’s life.

What is a biography?

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What is a short story?

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Life story, I, me, we.

What is an autobiography?

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These parts of poems are like sentences and paragraphs.

What are lines and stanzas?