6-8 Literary Terms (1-16)

What a piece of writing is MOSTLY ABOUT

Gives the MAIN IDEA and IMPORTANT DETAILS of a passage

More generally state TOPIC concerning a passage's MAIN IDEA

A CLASSIFICATION of LITERATURE, such as fiction, drama, poetry

A type of literature that tells a MADE-UP story

A type of lit. that tells about REAL-LIFE people, places, events, & things

A PLAY written to be performed by actors

A folktale about GODS and GODDESSES

An AMERICAN HERO folktale full of extreme exaggerations

A folktale, usually with TALKING ANIMALS, that always has a moral to it