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CLEP Common Literary Forms And Genres
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1. A poetic work that features the strong rhythms of free versebut is presented on the page in the form of prose - without line breaks.
Historical novel
Prose poem
Aphorism
Chivalric romance
2. A romance that describes the adventures of medieval knights and celebrates their strict code of honor - loyalty - and respectful devotion to women.
Chivalric romance
Aphorism
Historical novel
One-act play
3. A fiction genre - popularized in the 1940s - with a cynical - disillusioned - loner protagonist.
Noir
Short-short story
Problem play
Soliloquy
4. 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
Essay
Lyric
Chivalric romance
5. A succinct - witty statement - often in verse. For example - William Wordsworth's observation 'The child is the father of the man.'
Epigram
Aphorism
Epistolary novel
Prose poem
6. The brief narration of a single event or incident.
Primitivist literature
Autobiographical novel
Anecdote
Problem play
7. A composition that is meant to be performed. The term often is used interchangeably with play.
Lyric
Bildungsroman
Problem play
Drama
8. A particularly compressed and truncated short story. They are rarely longer than 1 -000 words.
Novella
Novel of ideas
Essay
Short-short story
9. 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.
Farce
Ballad
Short-short story
Bildungsroman
10. 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.
Tragicomedy
Myth
Allegory
Short story
11. A short narrative that illustrates a moral by means of allegory.
Noh drama
Short story
Legend
Parable
12. 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.
Lyric
Picaresque novel
Ballad
Epic
13. A work of fiction of middle length - often divided into a few short chapters - such as Henry James's Daisy Miller.
Comedy
Black comedy
Novella
Verse novel
14. A story about a heroic figure derived from oral tradition and based partly on fact and partly on fiction.
Romance
Legend
Essay
Science fiction
15. 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.
Tragicomedy
Dystopic literature
Novel
Propaganda
16. An autobiographical poetic genre in which the poet discusses intensely personal subject matter with unusual frankness.
Short-short story
Novel of manners
Memoir
Confessional poetry
17. A play written in the fifteenth or sixteenth centuries that presents an allegory of the Christian struggle for salvation.
Morality play
Tragicomedy
Short-short story
Social protest novel
18. A play such as Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale that mixes elements of tragedy and comedy.
Tragicomedy
Elegy
Satire
Parody
19. 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.
Ballad
Fiction
Farce
Primitivist literature
20. A lighthearted play characterized by humor and a happy ending.
Prose
Problem play
Comedy
Short story
21. A short play based on a biblical story.
Mystery play
Metafiction
Picaresque novel
Essay
22. 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.
Soliloquy
Fiction
Short-short story
Myth
23. A narrative in which literal meaning corresponds clearly and directly to symbolic meaning. For example - the literal story in John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress
Essay
Allegory
Historical novel
Biography
24. 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.
Science fiction
Mystery play
Soliloquy
Aphorism
25. A form of nonfictional discussion or argument that Michel de Montaigne pioneered in the 1500s.
Mystery play
Essay
Pastiche
Comedy
26. Any composition not written in verse.
Propaganda
Prose
Satire
Social protest novel
27. A short prose or verse narrative - such as those by Aesop - that illustrates a moral - which often is stated explicitly at the end.
Drama
Fable
Mystery play
Noir
28. A narrative work that reports true events.
Verse novel
Picaresque novel
Novel
Nonfiction
29. A work that imitates the style of a previous author - work - or literary genre. Alternatively - the term may refer to a work that contains a hodgepodge of elements or fragments from different sources or influences. It differs from parody in that its
Black comedy
Nonfiction
Elegy
Pastiche
30. A humorous and often satirical imitation of the style or particular work of another author.
Parody
Legend
Soliloquy
Burlesque
31. Traditionally - a folk song telling a story or legend in simple language - often with a refrain.
Ballad
Chivalric romance
Parody
Epistolary novel
32. 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.
Memoir
Tragedy
Elegy
Ballad
33. 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.
Dirge
Drama
Epistolary novel
Verse novel
34. 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.
Historical novel
Ballad
Dramatic monologue
Satire
35. Fiction that concerns the nature of fiction itself - either by reinterpreting a previous fictional work or by drawing attention to its own fictional status.
Historical novel
Allegory
Legend
Metafiction
36. The nonfictional story of a person's life - told by that person.
Play
Science fiction
Epigram
Autobiography
37. A serious lyric poem - often of significant length - that usually conforms to an elaborate metrical structure.
Soliloquy
Allegory
Didactic literature
Ode
38. Fiction that is set in an alternative reality
Confessional poetry
Mystery play
Novel of ideas
Science fiction
39. A play consisting of a single act - without intermission and running usually less than an hour.
Bildungsroman
Ballad
One-act play
Soliloquy
40. A short poetic composition that describes the thoughts of a single speaker.
Fable
Propaganda
Lyric
Drama
41. A work of didactic literature that aims to influence the reader on a specific social or political issue.
Propaganda
Comedy
Tragicomedy
Bildungsroman
42. The nonfictional story of a person's life. James Boswell's Life of Johnson is one of the most celebrated examples.
Social protest novel
Anecdote
Didactic literature
Biography
43. 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
Morality play
Novel of manners
Biography
44. A play from the Middle Ages featuring saints or miraculous appearances by the Virgin Mary.
Legend
Novel of manners
Problem play
Miracle play
45. A short pastoral poem in the form of a dialogue between two shepherds. Virgil's Eclogues is the most famous example of this genre.
Eclogue
Science fiction
Tragicomedy
Anecdote
46. Bertolt Brecht's Marxist approach to theater - which rejects emotional and psychological engagement in favor of critical detachment.
Epic theater
Novel of manners
Chivalric romance
Mystery play
47. A ritualized form of Japanese drama that evolved in the 1300s involving masks and slow - stylized movement.
Noh drama
Autobiography
Novella
Elegy
48. A fictional prose narrative of significant length.
Allegory
Mystery play
Novel
Fiction
49. A novel that focuses on the social customs of a certain class of people - often with a sharp eye for irony. Jane Austen's novels are prime examples of this genre.
Novel of manners
Verse novel
Epistolary novel
Pastoral
50. A short poetic expression of grief. It differs from an elegy in that it often is embedded within a larger work - is less highly structured - and is meant to be sung.
Memoir
Dirge
Eclogue
Essay
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