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Genres of Literature and Their Characteristics
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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?