Five literary Genres Flashcards
Give the five basic literary Genres.
Short story Novel Drama Essay Poetry
What are the elements of a short story?
Setting Characters Plot Conflict Point of View Theme
What are the elements of a plot?
Exposition Rising action Climax Falling action Denoument
Give the two kinds of plot.
Aristotelian Plot structure
Unconventional Plot Structure
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.
Aristotelian Plot Structure.
What is an unconventional plot structure?
A non-linear narrative and circular narrative. Has a structure that is so straight forward and can move back in time using flashbacks.
Give the types of conflicts
Man vs Man Man vs himself Man vs nature Man vs supernatural Man vs technology Man vs Society
This is the position from which a story is presented.
Point of view
What are the elements of a novel.
It is the same with the elements of a short story.
give the kinds of novels.
Gothic Historical Picaresque Thriller Mystery Fantasy Cult Epistolary Psychological
Give the two kinds of Drama
Comedy and Tragedy
What are the elements of Drama?
Characters Setting Dialogue - aside -soliloquy Plot Gestures Music Theme Spectacle
What does aside mean in terms of literature?
It is a dramatic device in which the character speaks to the audience.
Explain what soliloquy is.
It is an act where the character talks to himself.
Give the parts and the two categories of an Essay.
IBC, Formal and Informal essay
Give the kinds of Essay.
Persuasive Expository Reflective Narrative Descriptive
It is the oldest Literary genre
Poetry
Give the elements of Poetry
- Imagery
- Rhyme
- Voice
- Diction
- Symbolism
- Rhythm
- Poetic Vision
- Addressee
- Figures of Speech
- Figures of Sound
Give and explain the different figures of Speech. (9)
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.
Give the different figures of sounds.
Alliteration- redundancy of consonant sounds.
Assonance- redundancy of vowel sounds.
Repetitions- redundancy of words
Onomatopoeia- sounds turn into words.
An element of poetry that refers to the images that appeal to the senses,
Imagery
Explain what this element of poetry means. Rhyme.
The most visible sign that the poem has a shape and a pattern.
Give the types of rhyme.
perfect rhyme
eye rhyme
half rhyme
Explain what this element of poetry means. Voice
It is the persona or speaker of the literature.
