Literary Genres Flashcards
Ballad
a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. having been passed on orally from one generation to the next as part of the folk culture.
Biography
an account of someone’s life written by someone else.
Drama
a play for theater
Essay
a short piece of writing on a particular subject
Fables
a short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral.
Fairy Tale
magical and imaginary beings and lands.
Folk Tale
a story originating in popular culture, typically passed on by word of mouth.
Haiku
a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world.
Historical Fiction
A literary genre in which the plot takes place in a setting located in the past. … An essential element of historical fiction is that it is set in the past and pays attention to the manners, social conditions and other details of the depicted period.
Legend
a traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical but unauthenticated.
Mystery
focus on a puzzling crime, situation, or circumstance that needs to be solved
Myth
a traditional or legendary story, usually concerning some being or hero or event, with or without a determinable basis of fact or a natural explanation, especially one that is concerned with deities or demigods and explains some practice, rite, or phenomenon of nature
Realism
everyday experiences as they are in real life. It depicts familiar people, places, and stories, primarily about the middle and lower classes of society.
Satire
artistic form, chiefly literary and dramatic, in which human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ridicule, derision, burlesque, irony, parody, caricature, or other methods, sometimes with an intent to inspire social reform.
Science Fiction
imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science
