Forms of Literature

What is a novel

• Fiction

  Plot

  Setting, time and place

  characters

  100+ pgs

  Theme

• Exactly like a novel but shorter

• Always real/ true

• Dialouge

  Meant to be performed

  Script with stage directions

One thing Poetry has

• moral/life lesson

• plot

• Written stanzas

• 100+ pages

What is a short story

• explain culture

• Exactly like a novel but shorter

• Talking animals

• Plot

What is something that is not a form of folk lit?

• moral/life lesson

• explain nature

• Talking animals

• 100+ pages

What is not a form of non-fiction

• Novel

• Auto Biography

• Biography

• Drill sheets

What are two things that describe folk lit?

• Theme

  meant to be performed

• Characters

  Oral Tradition

• Plot

  Talking animals

• explain nature

  Moral/ life lesson