Structures of Stories, Dramas, and Poems

Can tell stories, create images, or share feelings. Written in short lines. Lines may have rhyme and / or meter. Special forms like haiku, limerick, and cinquains exist.

• poetry

• dialogue

• rhyme

• fiction

the words spoken by characters in a play

• rhyme scheme

• dialogue

• rhyme

• meter

the pattern of rhyme in a poem

• fiction

• rhyme

• rhyme scheme

• drama

a piece of literature or other creative work with a plot that is completely invented by the author

• drama

• poetry

• fiction

• expository

a pattern of sounds that makes a poem sound MUSICAL; the up-and-down, high-and-low sounds that syllables create in words

• poetry

• rhyme

• meter

• rhythm

the rhythmic pattern of a stanza, determine by the kind and number of lines and the number of syllables in each line

• meter

• stanza

• rhyme

• rhythm

can be fiction or nonfiction; skids, plays. Contains stage directions, what actors should say (dialogue), and how a stage should look (stage set).

• poetry

• drama

• fiction

• expository

a division of a poem made by arranging the lines into units separated by a space; often has the same number of lines and a repeating pattern of meter and rhyme

• lines

• paragraphs

• stanzas

• meter

a piece of writing that is true or informational

• drama

• poetry

• fiction

• nonfiction

The ________ of a work of literature is how the author _________ and formats words on the page.

• build, writes

• structure, organizes

• color, colors

• pattern, organizes