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Literary Terms/Genre
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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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