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Literary Terms/Genre

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Homily literally means "sermon," but more informally, it can include any serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual advice
Jeremiad a literary work or speech expressing a bitter lament or a righteous prophecy of doom
Legend a narrative handed down from the past that contains historical elements and usually supernatural elements
Myth a traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events
Novel a long work of fiction
Novella a tale or short story
Parable a short narrative designed to convey a moral truth
Parody a work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule; often distorts or exaggerates distinctive features of the original
Picaresque an episode plot, usually first-person autobiographical
Prose the ordinary form of written form of written language; writing that is not poetry, drama, or song is considered prose
Quest Narrative a story in which the central character is searching fro something for something, such as a person, location, or abstract value
Romance In general, a story in which an idealized hero or heroine undertakes a quest and is successful. In a romance, beauty, innocence, and goodness usually prevail over evil. Are traditionally set in the distant past and use a great deal of fantasy
Satire a style of writing that uses humor to criticize people, ideas, or institutions in hopes of improving them; a mode of writing based on ridicule that criticizes the foibles and follies of society without necessarily offering a solution
Tell Tale an outrageously exaggerated humorous story that is obviously unbelievable
Tragedy a work of literature, ecpecially a play, that results in a catastrophe for the main character; the cause of a tragedy is usually the tragic flaw, or weakness, in the hero's character
Trilogy a work in three parts, each of which is a complete work in itself
Verse used in two senses: (1) as unit of poetry, in which case it has the same significance as a stanza or line; and (2) as a name given generally to metrical composition
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