OAE Elementary Education questions with correct answers

Prose - Answer is language as it is originally spoken as oposed to verse or langugaue with metric patterns. It is used for everyday communication, and is found in textbooks, memos, reports, articles, short stories, and novels. Characteistics of prose - Answer may have some sort of rhyrhm, but there are no formal arrangement The common unit of organization is the sentence. It may include literary devices of repetition and balance It must have more coherent relationship amoung sentences then a list would Poetry - Answer Also called verse, is the manipulation of language with respect to meaning, metter, sound, and rhthm. Aline of poetry can be any length and may not rhyme. Related groups of lines are called stanzas, and may also be any length Some poems are as short as a few lines, and some are as long as a book . Poetry is more ancient form of literature than prose. Fiction - Answer is the product of the writer's imagination Non- fiction - Answer Based on facts. Style - Answer is the manner in which a writer uses language in prose or poetry. What is style affected by - Answer diction or word choice