English Chp. 11 Notes

Lesson 1
Literary Genre: A type of literature, there are four main types, Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Drama.
Genre: A category of something, books, shows, etc.
Epic Poetry: A type of Poetry, which tells the great and heroic deeds of people in a time period.
Biography: A writing about someone’s life, written by a different person.
Autobiography: A biography that is made by the person the biography is about.

Lesson 2
Genre Fiction: Genres that are fictional, such as Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror.
Short Story: A story that is 25-30 pages long.
Novella: A story that is longer than a short story, it is about 60-120 pages in length.
Novel: The longest of the three, it is over 120 pages in length.

Lesson 3
Informational Nonfiction: A lot of factual texts to prove something.
Literary Nonfiction: Nonfiction that uses literary elements, such as a plot, characters, and a setting.
Self-Help: A work of writing that gives advice on something.
Guides: Step-by-step instructions to do something.
Academic Texts: Comprehensive knowledge of a topic.
Journalism: Newspapers, or news on television that is reporting recent events.
Travel Guides: Information about traveling to certain places.
Commentary: An author’s opinion on certain events.
Subject: The person talked about in a Biography.

Lesson 4
Narrative Texts: A Narrative text tells a story, it can be either Fiction or Nonfiction.
Description: A writer describes people, places, things, and ideas.
Sequence: A writer tries to explain things in a sequence.
Problem Solution: A work of writing that shows solutions to a problem.

Lesson 5
Formal Essay: An essay that uses more formality than other types of writing.
The Types of Formal Essays: Expository, Compare and Contrast, Cause and Effect, and Argumentative.
Formal Essays are usually five paragraphs long.

Lesson 6
Persuasion: The act of making someone change their opinion of something.
Persuasive Journalism: The way reporters sway opinions on an event.
Testimonial: A statement by someone supporting an opinion.
Emotional Appeal: To try and sway opinions to support a cause by using your emotions.
Expert Opinion: A testimony by someone who is an expert on the thing they are supporting.
Rhetorical Question: A question asked that is not meant to be answered.
Persuasive Pronouns: Pronouns used to make the reader or watcher feel they are in the conversation, such as “You,” “We,” etc.

Lesson 7
Folklore: Stories that have been passed down for generations.
Folklorist: Someone who studies folklore.
Mythology: A type of lore that may talk about the origin of humans, or how the weather is made.
Legend: A lore about a person or place that is legendary, such as the Fountain of Youth.

Lesson 8
Poetry: A work of writing made to convey a feeling or thought.
Prose: A work of writing that is more casual than poetry, it bends the rules of poetry to convey meaning.
Haiku: A Japanese poetry form that’s first and third lines have five syllables, while the second has seven.
Meter: The rhythm of a poem, the term that refers to the meter is called “Feet.”
The most common types of Feet are the Iamb, which has two syllables while the second has more emphasis than the first, the Trochees, which has two syllables and the first has more emphasis, the Dactyls, which has three syllables and the first is emphasized, and the Anapest, it has three syllables and the third is emphasized.
Stanza: An isolated part of a poem.
Couplet: A poetic form that has two rhyming lines, the lines have the same meter.

Lesson 9
Concrete Poem: A poem that functions as art, as it has certain letter arrangement, spacing, etc.
Concrete Poems have been found throughout history, from antiquity to Renaissance, to post-WWII.
People still use concrete poems today!

Lesson 10
Capitalization: To put an upper-case letter in a sentence.
Punctuation Rules: To place a punctuation mark at the end of a sentence, such as the period.
Prose may not use punctuation or capitalization rules a lot of times.

Lesson 11
Drama: A play.
Dramatic Structure: When a play is divided into different parts.
Prologue: A brief introduction to a play.
Act: A large section of a play.
Conflict: What is being resolved in a play.
Complications: Obstacles.
Climax: The part of the play with the most tension.
Resolution: When the conflict is resolved.
Scene: A small section of the play.
Epilogue: A short conclusion to the play.