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Five literary Genres Flashcards

1
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Give the five basic literary Genres.

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Short story
Novel
Drama
Essay
Poetry
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What are the elements of a short story?

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Setting
Characters
Plot
Conflict
Point of View
Theme
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What are the elements of a plot?

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Exposition
Rising action
Climax
Falling action
Denoument
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Give the two kinds of plot.

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Aristotelian Plot structure

Unconventional Plot Structure

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This kind of plot follows the triangle, where it starts from exposition, to rising action, to climax, to falling action then lastly to a denouement.

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Aristotelian Plot Structure.

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What is an unconventional plot structure?

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A non-linear narrative and circular narrative. Has a structure that is so straight forward and can move back in time using flashbacks.

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Give the types of conflicts

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Man vs Man
Man vs himself
Man vs nature
Man vs supernatural
Man vs technology
Man vs Society
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This is the position from which a story is presented.

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Point of view

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What are the elements of a novel.

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It is the same with the elements of a short story.

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give the kinds of novels.

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Gothic
Historical
Picaresque
Thriller
Mystery
Fantasy
Cult
Epistolary
Psychological
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Give the two kinds of Drama

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Comedy and Tragedy

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What are the elements of Drama?

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Characters
Setting
Dialogue
- aside
-soliloquy
Plot
Gestures
Music
Theme
Spectacle
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What does aside mean in terms of literature?

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It is a dramatic device in which the character speaks to the audience.

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Explain what soliloquy is.

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It is an act where the character talks to himself.

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Give the parts and the two categories of an Essay.

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IBC, Formal and Informal essay

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Give the kinds of Essay.

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Persuasive
Expository
Reflective
Narrative
Descriptive
17
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It is the oldest Literary genre

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Poetry

18
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Give the elements of Poetry

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  1. Imagery
  2. Rhyme
  3. Voice
  4. Diction
  5. Symbolism
  6. Rhythm
  7. Poetic Vision
  8. Addressee
  9. Figures of Speech
  10. Figures of Sound
19
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Give and explain the different figures of Speech. (9)

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Simile- Comparison of two unlike things.

Metaphor- Comparing two unlike things using like and as.

Personification- things doing human movements.

Irony- there is a contradiction of expectation between what is said and what is really meant.

Oxymoron- Contradictory words placed beside each other.

Hyperbole- overly exaugurated.

Understatement- understatement

Synecdoche- part of a whole

Apostrophe- addressing an object as if your talking to them.

20
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Give the different figures of sounds.

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Alliteration- redundancy of consonant sounds.

Assonance- redundancy of vowel sounds.

Repetitions- redundancy of words

Onomatopoeia- sounds turn into words.

21
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An element of poetry that refers to the images that appeal to the senses,

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Imagery

22
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Explain what this element of poetry means. Rhyme.

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The most visible sign that the poem has a shape and a pattern.

23
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Give the types of rhyme.

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perfect rhyme
eye rhyme
half rhyme

24
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Explain what this element of poetry means. Voice

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It is the persona or speaker of the literature.

25
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What is diction?

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It is the different choice of words made by the author.

26
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What is symbolism?

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Something that represents something else.

27
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Explain what Rhythm is.

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It is the music made by the statements of poem which includes the syllables in the lines.

28
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What is poetic vision?

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The central thought of the poem

29
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Give the three kinds of poetry.

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Lyric
Narrative
Dramatic

30
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Give and explain the two kinds of Narrative Poetry.

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Epic
- a long narrative poem
- its heroes are aided by divine or supernatural force
- it is serious and written in an elevated style.
Dramatic
- soliloquy
- dramatic monologue

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