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GAMSAT Vocab > Literary Genres > Flashcards

Literary Genres Flashcards

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Apocalyptic

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Prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom

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Allegory

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Short moral story

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Autobiography

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Book or account of your own life

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Ballad

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Narrative song with short stanzas

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Bildungsroman

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Novel focusing on the growth of the main character

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Biography

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Account of the series of events making up a persons life

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Comedy

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Light and humorous drama with a happy ending

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Drama

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Work intended for performance by actors on a stage

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Dystopia

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Work set in an imaginary place where life is extremely bad

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Elegy

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Mournful poem, a lament for the dead

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Epic

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Long narrative poem telling of a hero’s deeds

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Epistolary

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Written in the form of letters or correspondence

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Epitaph

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Summary statement of commemoration for a dead person

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Essay

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Analytic or interpretive literary composition

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Fable

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Short story, features animals, legends, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that become anthropomorphized

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Fantasy

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Fiction with large amount of imagination

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Farce

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Comedy characterised by broad satire

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Folklore

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Unwritten stories, proverbs, and songs of a culture

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Folktale

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Traditional story or legend circulated by word of mouth

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Gothic

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Characterised by gloom, mystery and grotesque

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Haiku

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Epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines

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Homily

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A sermon on a moral or religious topic

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Lyric

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Short poem of songlike quality

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Melodrama

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Story with characters behaving in an extremely emotional way

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Memoir

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Account of an authors personal experiences

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Mystery

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Story about crime presented as a novel, play or movie

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Myth

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Traditional story serving to explain a world view, widely held but false

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Novel

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Extended fictional work in prose

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Novella

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Short novel

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Ode

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Lyric poem with complex / irregular stanza forms

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Parable

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Short moral / spiritual story

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Pastoral

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Literary work idealising rural life

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Picaresque

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Involving clever adventures of a mischievous hero

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Poetry

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Literature in metrical form

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Romance

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Story dealing with love

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Satire

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Witty language used to convey insults or scorn

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Sonnet

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Verse form of 14 lines with fixed rhyme scheme

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Science Fiction

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Speculative fiction, deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts (science, technology, space, time travel)

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Supernatural

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Speculative fiction is centered on unexplainable phenomena / beyond what is natural

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Thriller

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Suspenseful story, play or movie

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Tragedy

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Drama exciting terror or pity

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Utopia

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Work of fiction describing an ideal state

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