Keystone Literature Terms #1-TYPES OF TEXT

Text that aims to present ideas and provoke an emotion in the readers through use of meter, imagery, and diction.

• drama

• satire

• poetry

• narrative

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

A story, actual, or fictional, expressed orally or in text.

• drama

• satire

• poetry

• narrative

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

A trend or pattern of shared beliefs or practices that mark an approach to literature.

• Text Organization/Structure

• Literary Movement

• Literary Form

• Sequence of Steps

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

Text that is not fictional and is designed to explain, argue, instruct, or describe rather than entertain. It is based on fact.

• Drama

• Poetry

• Fiction

• Nonfiction

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

A category used to classify literary works, usually by form, technique, or content.

• Literary Nonfiction

• Satire

• Genre

• Fiction

A literary approach that ridicules or examines human vice or weakness. Usually it is designed to criticize something in a humorous way.

• Literary Nonfiction

• Satire

• Genre

• Fiction

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

A written account of another person's life.

• Biography

• Allegory

• Narrative

• Fiction

The author's method for structuring a text (Ex., cause-effect, flashbacks, and foreshadowing)

• Sequence of Steps

• Allegory

• Dramatic Script

• Text Organization/Structure

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

Text that includes literary elements and devices usually associated with fiction to report on real events, people, or places.

• Sequence of Steps

• Allegory

• Literary Nonfiction

• Text Organization/Structure

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

A literary organizational form that presents the order in which tasks are to be performed. Also called "sequential."

• Sequence of Steps

• Allegory

• Literary Nonfiction

• Text Organization/Structure

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.3

CCSS.W.11-12.2

CCSS.W.11-12.2A

CCSS.W.11-12.3C