Exploring the World of Narrative Poetry

Types of Writing

• An autobiography is a story of a person's life written by himself from his own point of view.
• A biography is a story of the life of a real person written by someone else.

Literary Devices

• A Chekhov's gun is a literary device that refers to the insertion of an apparently irrelevant object early in a selection to which the purpose is revealed later.
• The purpose of a cliffhanger in literature is to leave the reader in suspense, making them eager to find out what happens next.
• An autobiographical writing is often written from an author's personal point of view.

Literary Terms

• An aphorism is a concise statement that contains subjective truth or observation.
• An open ending is a literary device that creates an unresolved conflict in a story, leaving the reader to think about the outcome.
• A cliffhanger is a type of open ending that leaves the reader in suspense.
• Literary criticism is the term used for literary techniques pertaining to the conventions and structures employed in different literary writings.

Foreshadowing

• Foreshadowing is a literary device that involves the insertion of an apparently irrelevant object early in a selection, hinting at a future event.
• Chekhov's gun is a type of foreshadowing that involves the insertion of an apparently irrelevant object early in a selection to which the purpose is revealed later.