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Literary Forms jrf
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Allegory | A narrative in which literal meaning corresponds clearly and directly to symbolic meaning. |
| Anecdote | The brief narration of a single event or incident. |
| Aphorism | A concise expression of insight or wisdom. |
| Ballad | Traditionally, a folk song telling a story or legend in simple language, often with a refrain. |
| Didatic Literature | Literature intended to instruct or educate. |
| Dirdge | A short poetic expression of grief. It is often embedded within a larger work, is less highly structured, and is meant to be sung. |
| Drama | A composition that is meant to be performed. |
| Elegy | A formal poem that laments the death of a friend or public figure, or, occasionally, a meditation on death itself. |
| Epic | A lengthy narrative that describes the deeds of a heroic figure, often of national or cultural importance, in elevated language. |
| Epigram | A succinct, witty statement, often in verse. |
| Essay | A form of nonfictional discussion or argument |
| Fable | A short prose or verse narrative, that illustrates a moral, which often is stated explicitly at the end. Frequently, the characters in a fable are animals that embody different human character traits. |
| Fiction | An invented narrative |
| Legend | A story about a heroic figure derived from oral tradition and based partly on fact and partly on fiction. |
| Lyric | A short poetic composition that describes the thoughts of a single speaker. |
| Memoir | An autobiographical work. Rather than focus exclusively on the author’s life, it pays significant attention to the author’s involvement in historical events and the characterization of individuals other than the author. |
| Myth | A story about the origins of a culture’s beliefs and practices, or of supernatural phenomena, usually derived from oral tradition and set in an imagined supernatural past. |
| Nonfiction | A narrative work that reports true events. |
| Novel | A fictional prose narrative of significant length |
| Novella | A work of fiction of middle length, often divided into a few short chapters, |
| Ode | A serious lyric poem, often of significant length, that usually conforms to an elaborate metrical structure. |
| Parable | A short narrative that illustrates a moral by means of allegory |
| Parody | A humorous and often satirical imitation of the style or particular work of another author. |
| Prose | Any composition not written in verse. The basic unit of prose is the sentence, which distinguishes it from free verse, in which the basic unit is a line of verse. Prose writing can be rhythmic, but on the whole, rhythm in prose is less pronounced than in |
| Prose Poem | A poetic work that features the strong rhythms of free verse but is presented on the page in the form of prose, without line breaks. |
| Satire | A work that exposes to ridicule the shortcomings of individuals, institutions, or society, often to make a political point. |
| Short Story | A work of prose fiction that is much shorter than a novel (rarely more than forty pages) and focused more tightly on a single event. |
| Soliloquy | A speech, often in verse, by a lone character. Are most common in dramas. |
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