Literary Genres

Question 1

Genres

Answer 1

Different ways literature s packaged and presented to readers

Question 2

Stream of consciousness

Answer 2

Describes thoughts in the minds of the characters using words

Question 3

Soliloquy

Answer 3

Dramatic speech where the character talks to themself allowing the audience to overhear and judge their state of mind

Question 4

Satire

Answer 4

Uses sarcasm to show foolishness in society or politics example is The Daily Show

Question 5

Paradox

Answer 5

A statement whose two parts seem contradictory but upon further review they make sense and convey a deeper truth. Example: think of paradoxical commandments

Question 6

Deus ex machina

Answer 6

an outside force swooping into a play, movie, or novel to neatly tie up the plot, resolve conflict, and generally save the day.

Question 7

Absurdist Fiction

Answer 7

1. Play or novel that presents humanities plight at meaningless and without purpose.
2. Reaction against war (because of 20th century where you have WWI), society and stresses of modern life

Writers:

1. Samuel Beckett = Waiting for Godot
2. Joseph Heller = Catch 22

Question 8

Allegory

Answer 8

A literary device in which a piece has a 2nd meaning on top of its overt (obvious) story. Characters represent human qualities (aka personification)

Writers:

1. John Bunyan = Pilgrim’s Progress
2. CS Lewis = The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe
3. George Orwell = Animal Farm

Question 9

Ballad

Answer 9

1. Songlike poems that tell a story
2. Has refrains (repeated line/s)
3. Most in iambic form
4. Very popular in Europe during Middle Ages
5. Murders, revenge, and violence

Writers:
1. Rudy Kipling

Question 10

Comic Novel

Answer 10

1. Feature of British/American Lit
2. Seeks to amuse the reader with larger than life characters and outlandish events

Writers:

1. Evelyn Waugh
2. PG Wodehouse
3. Mark Twain

Question 11

Dystopia

Answer 11

1. Narrative that depicts an anti utopia
2. Totalitarian government

Writers:

1. Huxley = Brave New World
2. Zamy = We
3. Orwell = 1984

Question 12

Epic

Answer 12

1. Long narrative poetic work popular by Homer during Ancient Greek and Classical Greek literature.
2. Has gods that get in the middle of human problems like in the Illiad
3. Most were performed oral until they were able to be written down

Question 13

Epistolary Novels

Answer 13

1. Letters, diaries, and journal entries

Question 14

Fables

Answer 14

1. A tale that provides a moral lesson

2. Features animals with human characteristics

Question 15

Fairy Tale

Answer 15

1. Story has fantasy characters from folklore

2. Begins with once upon a time and ends happily ever after

Question 16

Fantasy

Answer 16

Blends historical materials with invented elements like wizards with magical powers, or dragons and unicorns. Think of Lord of the Rings

Question 17

Farce

Answer 17

A comedy that makes use of highly exaggerated/funny situations

Question 18

Legend

Answer 18

Traditional story that has become part of experience of a nation, ethnic group or culture

Question 19

Lyric Poem

Answer 19

Brief poem in verse and addresses the reader directly and expresses the poet’s feelings

Question 20

Myth

Answer 20

myth is a story which is not true and involves supernatural beings - or at any rare supra-human beings, always concerned with creation, embodies feeling and concept

Question 21

Parody

Answer 21

Imitate another author’s style or imitate another genre in order to make fun of it and mock its conventions. Example: Marlon Wayne’s a Scary Movie series

Question 22

Poetic Forms

Answer 22

1. Lyric
2. Haiku
3. Limerick
4. Ode
5. Pastoral
6. Sonnet
7. Triolet
8. Villanelle

LL HOPS inside TV

Question 23

Haiku Poem

Answer 23

Traditional form of Japanese poetry. Sometimes includes a seasonal word/image to compare two things. Has 3 lines, first two have 5 syllables and middle has 7

How to remember it:

I am first with five
Then seven in the middle
Five again to end

Question 24

Limerick Poem

Answer 24

Comedic poem with 5 lines. Rhyme scheme AABBA

Question 25

Ode Poem

Answer 25

Lyric poem that addresses/celebrates a person, place or thing or idea.

Question 26

Pastoral Poem

Answer 26

Depicts rural life or life of Shepards in a perfect form

Question 27

Sonnet

Answer 27

2 types:

1. Shakespearean sonnet: 14 lines (3 quatrains, and last two are rhyming couplet), each line has 10 syllables, rhyme is ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG
2. Petrarchan sonnet: 14 lines (first 8 are octet and rhyme ABBA, last six are whatever)

Question 28

Triolet Poem

Answer 28

Has 8 lines and rhymes: AB, AA, ABAB

Question 29

Villanelle Poem

Answer 29

19 lines (5 stanzas with 3 lines each, last 4 have a couplet) First stanza: Ra,B,Rb and last stanza: AB,Ra,Rb other 4 are AB first two lines and last line alters from Ra to Rb