Literary Genres Flashcards
1
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Tragedy
A
starts good, gets bad, hero destroyed
2
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Comedy
A
starts bad, gets good, hero triumphs
3
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Comedy of manners
A
elevated, often satirical, from Restoration Period
4
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Farce
A
Crude, often obscene
5
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Melodrama
A
excessive appeal to emotions
6
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bildungsroman
A
novel about young person’s maturation (coming of age)
7
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allegory
A
persons equated with meanings beyond the narrative
8
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satire
A
improving human conditions through exaggeration, comedy
9
Q
novel
A
extended fictional narrative
10
Q
novella/ novelette
A
longer than a short story
11
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parody
A
ridicule of a serious work b exaggerated imitation
12
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picaresque novel
A
life story of a rascal
13
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short story
A
brief fictional narrative in prose
14
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essay
A
prose discussion of a limited topic
15
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horation satire
A
gentle ridicule
