Five literary Genres

Question 1

Give the five basic literary Genres.

Answer 1

Short story
Novel
Drama
Essay
Poetry

Question 2

What are the elements of a short story?

Answer 2

Setting
Characters
Plot
Conflict
Point of View
Theme

Question 3

What are the elements of a plot?

Answer 3

Exposition
Rising action
Climax
Falling action
Denoument

Question 4

Give the two kinds of plot.

Answer 4

Aristotelian Plot structure

Unconventional Plot Structure

Question 5

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.

Answer 5

Aristotelian Plot Structure.

Question 6

What is an unconventional plot structure?

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Give the types of conflicts

Answer 7

Man vs Man
Man vs himself
Man vs nature
Man vs supernatural
Man vs technology
Man vs Society

Question 8

This is the position from which a story is presented.

Answer 8

Point of view

Question 9

What are the elements of a novel.

Answer 9

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

Question 10

give the kinds of novels.

Answer 10

Gothic
Historical
Picaresque
Thriller
Mystery
Fantasy
Cult
Epistolary
Psychological

Question 11

Give the two kinds of Drama

Answer 11

Comedy and Tragedy

Question 12

What are the elements of Drama?

Answer 12

Characters
Setting
Dialogue
- aside
-soliloquy
Plot
Gestures
Music
Theme
Spectacle

Question 13

What does aside mean in terms of literature?

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Explain what soliloquy is.

Answer 14

It is an act where the character talks to himself.

Question 15

Give the parts and the two categories of an Essay.

Answer 15

IBC, Formal and Informal essay

Question 16

Give the kinds of Essay.

Answer 16

Persuasive
Expository
Reflective
Narrative
Descriptive

Question 17

It is the oldest Literary genre

Answer 17

Poetry

Question 18

Give the elements of Poetry

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Give and explain the different figures of Speech. (9)

Answer 19

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.

Question 20

Give the different figures of sounds.

Answer 20

Alliteration- redundancy of consonant sounds.

Assonance- redundancy of vowel sounds.

Repetitions- redundancy of words

Onomatopoeia- sounds turn into words.

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Imagery

Question 22

Explain what this element of poetry means. Rhyme.

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Give the types of rhyme.

Answer 23

perfect rhyme
eye rhyme
half rhyme

Question 24

Explain what this element of poetry means. Voice

Answer 24

It is the persona or speaker of the literature.

Question 25

What is diction?

Answer 25

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

Question 26

What is symbolism?

Answer 26

Something that represents something else.

Question 27

Explain what Rhythm is.

Answer 27

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

Question 28

What is poetic vision?

Answer 28

The central thought of the poem

Question 29

Give the three kinds of poetry.

Answer 29

Lyric
Narrative
Dramatic

Question 30

Give and explain the two kinds of Narrative Poetry.

Answer 30

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