Literary genres & movements
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- Ballad
- Short, narrative poem relating a single dramatic event
- Folk ballad
- Short, narrative poem composed to be sung
- Ballade
- Verse form from 14th and 15th century France, usually with an envoy used as a dedication or address to an important person
- Chronicle plays
- Dramas based on 16th century English chronicles; "patriotic"
- Closet drama
- Play meant to be read rather than performed
- Elegy
- Reflective poem of lamentation or regret
- Epic
- Long, exalted narrative poem; usually a serious subject focused on heroic figure
- Epithalamium
- Song or poem written to celebrate a marriage (Song of Solomon)
- Essay
- Short literary piece in prose that discusses a topic or attempts to persuade
- Fabliau
- Comic, bawdy, satirical tales (ex: Canterbury Tales)
- Farce
- Light, comic theatrical piece with exaggerated characters
- Gothic roman
- Mysteries written in late 18th - early 19th century England, usually taking place in medieval ruins or haunted castles
- Haiku
- Unrhymed Japanese poem recording essence of a moment keenly perceived (5-7-5)
- Hornbook
- Primer used in 15th-16th century for children
- Idyl
- Short poem
- Limerick
- Short, nonsensical, ribald, humorous verse (popular rather than literary)
- Picaresque novel
- Novel in which an underdog has a series of episodic adventures in which he sees the world (satricial commentary)
- Epistolary novel
- Novel told through a series of letters between protagonists
- Naturalistic novel
- Novel that studies that effects of heredity versus environment on human beings
- Social novel
- Regional novel that describes the life of the people in a particular place
- Metaphysical novel
- Novel focusing on creation, judgment and redemption
- Pastoral
- Shepherd's life presented in a conventional manner (told in many forms)
- Novel of manners
- Novel that studies the conventions of a particular group in a particular time
- Name two authors of fables
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Aesop
Jean de la Fontaine - Satire
- A story that criticizes and exposes human vices
- Give three examples of books and authors of children's fantasy books
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Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Baum
Winnie-the-Pooh, Milne
Mary Poppins, Travers
The Hobbit, Tolkein
The Chronicles of Narnia, Lewis
Wrinkle in Time, L'Engle
Red Wall Series, Jacque - Give two examples of adventure or mystery books for children
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Wind in the Willows, Graham
Island of the Blue Dolphins, O'Dell
Sounder, Armstrong - Give an example of a socially relevant children's book
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Outsiders, Hinton
I Am the Cheese, Cormier - Name two authors of Tudor Lyric poetry
- Shakespeare, Sir Walter Raleigh
- Name an example of epic poetry from England, 17th century
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Paradise Lost, Milton
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Gray
Rape of the Lock, Pope - Name an example of Restoration comedy (sexual politics)
- Country Wife, William Wycherly
- Give an example of a picaresque novel
- Moll Flanders, Daniel DeFoe
- Captivity narrative
- American Puritan story of a woman captured by Indians, resists and is delivered into salvation (Humiliations Follow'd with Deliverances, Cotton Mather)
- Plantation tradition novels
- Works that look back fondly to pre-Civil War times, characters are white, paternalistic masters, "happy darkies". 1880s to 1900s
- Realism (American)
- Literature that represents middle-class life, backlash to romanticism. Civil War to turn of the century.
- Name three American realist authors
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Mark Twain
William Dean Howells
Rebecca Harding Davis
John W. DeForest
Henry James - Slave narrative
- Autobiographical accounts of ante-Bellum former slaves (1830-1890)
- Name three authors of slave narratives
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Frederick Douglass
Nat Turner
William Wells Brown
Harriet Jacobs