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Epic poems - a long poem that tells the deeds of a great hero, adventures
Epistolary Poetry - written and read as letters
Ballads - songlike poems that tell a story, often dealing with adventure, romance, death and religion
Elegies - poems of loss that express both praise for the dead and an element of consolation
Odes - Poems that express strong emotions about life, evolved from songs
Epigrams/ limericks - Known for humor and wit
Sonnet - a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English
typically having ten syllables per line.
novel of manners - a novel focusing on and describing the social customs and habits of a particular
social group
Sentimental love novels - originated in romanticism
epistolary novel - a novel in letter form written by one or more of the characters
Bildungsroman Novel - German coming of age stories. Youth's struggles with identity and life's
meaning (Catcher in the Rye, Lord of the Flies)
Roman a' clef - Require real life frame of reference for full understanding (key). Disguises truth too
dangerous for author to state directly (Animal Farm, Nun's Priest Tale: Canterbury Tales)
, Realism - Addresses ethical issues
Satire - the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or
vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. (Alexander
Pope's "Rape of Lock," John Swift's "A Modest Proposal"
Used to depict lower-class characters speech in dramas - Colloquial Prose
Used to depict upper-class characters speech in dramas - Stylized verse
Example of a play within a play - Hamlet
Shakespeare borrowed themes and characters from which author - Christopher Marlowe (Merchant
of Venice- Jew of Malta)
Comedy - light and humorous drama with a happy ending
3 types of dramatic comedy - Farce, romantic comedy, satirical comedy
Farce - A comedy that contains an extravagant and nonsensical disregard of seriousness, although it
may have a serious, scornful purpose. Highly improbable events
romantic comedy - a type of comedy whose likable and sensible main characters are placed in
difficulties from which they are rescued at the end of the play, either attaining their ends or having
their good fortunes restored. (Much Ado About Nothing- Shakespeare)
Satirical Comedy and Black Comedy - generally mock and lampoon human foolishness and vices;
make main characters either fool, morally corrupt, cynical in attitude. characters display foible-
cuckolded spouses, dupes, other gullible types. Examples Volpone-Ben Jonson, The Birds-
Aristophanes,
When extended to extremes it is black comedy, comedic occurrences are grotesque or terrible
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