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CLEP Common Literary Forms And Genres
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1. A composition that is meant to be performed. The term often is used interchangeably with play.
Autobiographical novel
Drama
Burlesque
Elegy
2. A full-length fictional work that is novelistic in nature but written in verse rather than prose. Examples include Aleksandr Pushkin's Eugene Onegin and Vikram Seth's The Golden Gate.
Prose poem
Didactic literature
Verse novel
Pastiche
3. A poem that contains words that a fictional or historical character speaks to a particular audience. Alfred - Lord Tennyson's 'Ulysses' is a famous example.
Novel of ideas
Epic theater
Dramatic monologue
Nonfiction
4. A play such as Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale that mixes elements of tragedy and comedy.
Myth
Burlesque
Tragicomedy
Morality play
5. A genre of fiction that presents an imagined future society that purports to be perfect and utopian but that the author presents to the reader as horrifyingly inhuman.
Novel of manners
Pastoral
Dystopic literature
Bildungsroman
6. A narrative work that reports true events.
Nonfiction
Science fiction
Prose poem
Ballad
7. A ritualized form of Japanese drama that evolved in the 1300s involving masks and slow - stylized movement.
Noh drama
Satire
Epigram
Aphorism
8. A novel in which the author's aim is to tell a story that illuminates and draws attention to contemporary social problems with the goal of inciting change for the better. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin - which exposed the horrors of Africa
Ballad
Tragicomedy
Confessional poetry
Social protest novel
9. A particularly compressed and truncated short story. They are rarely longer than 1 -000 words.
Black comedy
Novel of manners
Short-short story
Primitivist literature
10. The nonfictional story of a person's life - told by that person.
Historical novel
Autobiography
Dramatic monologue
Epic
11. Originally - a realistic novel detailing a scoundrel's exploits. The term grew to refer more generally to any novel with a loosely structured - episodic plot that revolves around the adventures of a central character.
Play
Primitivist literature
Lyric
Picaresque novel
12. A speech - often in verse - by a lone character. The most famous example being the 'To be or not to be' speech in Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Chivalric romance
Soliloquy
Satire
Romance
13. A novel set in an earlier historical period that features a plot shaped by the historical circumstances of that period.
Mystery play
Novella
Historical novel
One-act play
14. 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.
One-act play
Short story
Chivalric romance
Prose
15. A formal poem that laments the death of a friend or public figure - or - occasionally - a meditation on death itself. In Greek and Latin poetry - the term applies to a specific type of meter (alternating hexameters and pentameters) regardless of cont
Short story
Elegy
Problem play
Didactic literature
16. A novel that tells a nonfictional - autobiographical story but uses novelistic techniques - such as fictionalized dialogue or anecdotes - to add color - immediacy - or thematic unity.
Autobiographical novel
Prose
Tragicomedy
Ballad
17. A lengthy narrative that describes the deeds of a heroic figure - often of national or cultural importance - in elevated language. Strictly - the term applies only to verse narratives like Beowulf or Virgil's Aeneid - but it is used to describe prose
Epic
Metafiction
Soliloquy
Nonfiction
18. The nonfictional story of a person's life. James Boswell's Life of Johnson is one of the most celebrated examples.
Legend
Pastoral
Ballad
Biography
19. 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.
Myth
Soliloquy
Novel of manners
Epigram
20. A short pastoral poem in the form of a dialogue between two shepherds. Virgil's Eclogues is the most famous example of this genre.
Propaganda
Memoir
Epic
Eclogue
21. A story meant to be performed in a theater before an audience. Most are written in dialogue form and are divided into several acts. Many include stage directions and instructions for sets and costumes.
Short story
Propaganda
Pastiche
Play
22. A fictional prose narrative of significant length.
Tragedy
Comedy
Prose poem
Novel
23. A German term - meaning 'formation novel -' for a novel about a child or adolescent's development into maturity - with special focus on the protagonist's quest for identity. James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a notable example.
Metafiction
Romance
Bildungsroman
Morality play
24. A lighthearted play characterized by humor and a happy ending.
Biography
Essay
Comedy
Novel of ideas
25. Fiction that is set in an alternative reality
One-act play
Dramatic monologue
Epigram
Science fiction
26. An autobiographical poetic genre in which the poet discusses intensely personal subject matter with unusual frankness.
Picaresque novel
Short story
Comedy
Confessional poetry
27. A humorous and often satirical imitation of the style or particular work of another author.
Parody
Comedy
Epigram
Elegy
28. Any composition not written in verse.
Prose
Chivalric romance
Satire
Picaresque novel
29. Fiction that concerns the nature of fiction itself - either by reinterpreting a previous fictional work or by drawing attention to its own fictional status.
Verse novel
Satire
Metafiction
One-act play
30. A short poetic composition that describes the thoughts of a single speaker.
Lyric
Novel of manners
Mystery play
Soliloquy
31. The brief narration of a single event or incident.
Anecdote
Novella
Burlesque
Comedy
32. A poetic work that features the strong rhythms of free versebut is presented on the page in the form of prose - without line breaks.
Epic
Prose poem
Parody
Comedy
33. A celebration of the simple - rustic life of shepherds and shepherdesses - usually written by a sophisticated - urban writer.
Dystopic literature
Epistolary novel
Novella
Pastoral
34. A fiction genre - popularized in the 1940s - with a cynical - disillusioned - loner protagonist.
Aphorism
Essay
Noir
Short story
35. A play from the Middle Ages featuring saints or miraculous appearances by the Virgin Mary.
Prose
Elegy
Noir
Miracle play
36. A story about a heroic figure derived from oral tradition and based partly on fact and partly on fiction.
Prose poem
Novel of ideas
Legend
Pastoral
37. A work of didactic literature that aims to influence the reader on a specific social or political issue.
Propaganda
Science fiction
Prose poem
Aphorism
38. A work that exposes to ridicule the shortcomings of individuals - institutions - or society - often to make a political point. Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels is one of the most well known examples in English.
Dystopic literature
Romance
Burlesque
Satire
39. Disturbing or absurd material presented in a humorous manner - usually with the intention to confront uncomfortable truths. Joseph Heller's Catch-22 is a notable example.
Mystery play
Ode
Black comedy
Pastoral
40. 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.
Aphorism
Drama
Pastoral
Memoir
41. A form of high-energy comedy that plays on confusions and deceptions between characters and features a convoluted and fast-paced plot.
Parody
Farce
Fiction
Memoir
42. A novel - such as Jean-Paul Sartre's Nausea - that the author uses as a platform for discussing ideas. Character and plot are of secondary importance.
Ode
Autobiographical novel
Novel of ideas
Social protest novel
43. A form of nonfictional discussion or argument that Michel de Montaigne pioneered in the 1500s.
Burlesque
Romance
Tragedy
Essay
44. A humorous imitation of a serious work of literature. The humor often arises from the incongruity between the imitation and the work being imitated. For example - Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock uses the high diction of epic poetry to talk abou
Romance
Burlesque
Satire
Eclogue
45. A serious lyric poem - often of significant length - that usually conforms to an elaborate metrical structure.
Eclogue
Ode
Pastiche
Didactic literature
46. A short play based on a biblical story.
Essay
Allegory
Fiction
Mystery play
47. A play written in the fifteenth or sixteenth centuries that presents an allegory of the Christian struggle for salvation.
Short-short story
Dramatic monologue
Essay
Morality play
48. A play consisting of a single act - without intermission and running usually less than an hour.
Short story
One-act play
Biography
Soliloquy
49. A short narrative that illustrates a moral by means of allegory.
Confessional poetry
Essay
Parable
Nonfiction
50. Works that express a preference for the natural over the artificial in human culture - and a belief that the life of primitive cultures is preferable to modern lifestyles.
Short-short story
Primitivist literature
One-act play
Pastiche
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