Literary Genres

Question 1

Tragedy

Answer 1

starts good, gets bad, hero destroyed

Question 2

Comedy

Answer 2

starts bad, gets good, hero triumphs

Question 3

Comedy of manners

Answer 3

elevated, often satirical, from Restoration Period

Question 4

Farce

Answer 4

Crude, often obscene

Question 5

Melodrama

Answer 5

excessive appeal to emotions

Question 6

bildungsroman

Answer 6

novel about young person’s maturation (coming of age)

Question 7

allegory

Answer 7

persons equated with meanings beyond the narrative

Question 8

satire

Answer 8

improving human conditions through exaggeration, comedy

Question 9

novel

Answer 9

extended fictional narrative

Question 10

novella/ novelette

Answer 10

longer than a short story

Question 11

parody

Answer 11

ridicule of a serious work b exaggerated imitation

Question 12

picaresque novel

Answer 12

life story of a rascal

Question 13

short story

Answer 13

brief fictional narrative in prose

Question 14

essay

Answer 14

prose discussion of a limited topic

Question 15

horation satire

Answer 15

gentle ridicule

Question 16

juvenalian satire

Answer 16

angry ridicule

Question 17

myth

Answer 17

traditional story explaining natural phenomena or cultural practice

Question 18

didactic literature

Answer 18

seeks to instruct