Genre

Question 1

comedy

Answer 1

type of drama, opposed to tragedy, having usually a happy ending, and emphasizing human limitation rather than human greatness

Question 2

comedy of manners

Answer 2

ridicules the manners (way of life, social customs, etc.) of a certain segment of society

Question 3

satire

Answer 3

ridicules human folly or vice with the purpose of bringing about reform or of keeping others from fall into similar folly or vice

Question 4

scornful comedy

Answer 4

main purpose is to expose and ridicule human folly, vanity, or hypocrisy

Question 5

romantic comedy

Answer 5

likable and sensible main characters are place in difficulties from which the are rescued at the end of the play

Question 6

farce

Answer 6

relies on exaggeration, horseplay, and unrealistic or improbable situations to provoke laughter

Question 7

escapist literature

Answer 7

written purely for entertainment, with little or no attempt to provide insights into the true nature of human life or behavior

Question 8

fable

Answer 8

short narrative making an edifying or cautionary point and often employing animal characters that act like human beings

Question 9

fantasy

Answer 9

fiction that pictures creatures or events beyond the boundaries of known reality

Question 10

interpretive literature

Answer 10

literature that provides valid insights into the nature of human life or behavior

Question 11

myth

Answer 11

any story that attempts to explain how the world was created or why the world is the way that it is.
stories passed on generation to generation and normally involve religion.
most were first spread by oral tradition and then written down.

Question 12

novel

Answer 12

a book of long narrative in literary prose

Question 13

novella

Answer 13

(short novel)

fictional, prose narrative longer than a novelette but shorter than a novel

Question 14

parable

Answer 14

a simple story illustrating a moral or religious lesson

Question 15

tragedy

Answer 15

drama in which a noble protagonist – a person of unusual moral or intellectual stature or outstanding abilities – falls to ruin during a struggle caused by a tragic flaw (or hamartia) in his character or an error in his rulings or judgments

Question 16

ballad

Answer 16

a narrative folk song.
traced back to Middle Ages.
usually created by common people and passed orally due to the illiteracy of the time. subjects include killings, feuds, important historical events, and rebellion.

Question 17

elegy

Answer 17

defined as a song or poem, written in elegiac couplets, that expresses sorrow or lamentation, usually for one who has died.

Question 18

epic

Answer 18

a long poem in a lofty style about the exploits of heroic figures. often come from an oral tradition of shared authorship or from a single, high-profile poet imitating the style.

Question 19

lyric

Answer 19

a song-like poem written mainly to express the feelings of emotions or thought from a particular person, thus separating it from narrative poems. generally short, averaging roughly twelve to thirty lines, and rarely go beyond sixty lines. express vivid imagination , emotion and all flow fairly concisely

Question 20

narrative poem

Answer 20

tells a story. both complex and simple, short or long. examples: epics, ballads, and metrical romances.

Question 21

ode

Answer 21

usually a lyric poem of moderate length, with a serious subject, elevated style, and an elaborate stanza pattern. often praises people, the arts of music and poetry, natural scenes, or abstract concepts.

Question 22

sonnet

Answer 22

a fixed form of fourteen lines, normally iambic pentameter, with a rhyme scheme conforming to or approximating one of two main types – the Italian or the English