Literary Genres Flashcards
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Tragedy
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- starts good, gets bad, hero destroyed
- example: Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, etc…
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Comedy
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-starts bad, gets good, hero triumphs
3
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Comedy of Manners
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-elevated, often satirical, from the restoration period
4
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Farce
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-crude, often obscene; a type of comedy
5
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Melodrama
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-excessive appeal to emotions
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Bildungsroman
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- a novel about a person’s maturation; coming of age
- example: “Jane Eyre”
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Allegory
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- persons equated with meanings beyond the narrative
- example: “Animal Farm”
- used to teach a moral lesson
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Satire
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- improving human conditions through exaggeration and comedy
- “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” on the aspects of slavery, organized religion, the government
9
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Novel
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-an extended fictional narrative
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Novella/Novellete
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-longer than a short story
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Parody
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-ridicule of a serious work by exaggerated imitation
12
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Picaresque Novel
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-the life story of a rascal
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Short Story
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- brief fictional narrative in prose
- example: “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe
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Essay
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-prose discussion of a limited topic
15
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Horatian Satire
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-gentle ridicule
