Literary Genres & Forms Flashcards
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Who was Nathaniel Hawthorne?
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, Dark Romantic, and short story writer.
What is Imagism?
Imagism was a movement in early 20th-century Anglo-American poetry that favored precision of imagery and clear, sharp language.
What is psychology?
Psychology is the study of behavior and mind, embracing all aspects of conscious and unconscious experience as well as thought.
What is a symbol?
A symbol is a sign that represents, stands for or suggests another idea, visual image, belief, action or material entity.
Who was Herman Melville?
Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period.
Captain Ahab
Moby Dick
What is creative nonfiction?
Creative nonfiction is a genre of writing that uses literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives.
Who was Edgar Allan Poe?
Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary critic.
What is a haiku?
Haiku is a very short form of Japanese poetry.
What is a novella?
A novella is a work of written, fictional, narrative prose normally longer than a short story but shorter than a novel.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s.
What is poetry?
Poetry is a writing form that tends to be arranged with shorter lines than prose and have other features that make them recognizable, such as rhyming.
What is a sonnet?
A sonnet is a poem in a specific form which originated in Italy; Giacomo Da Lentini is credited with its invention.
Who was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator whose works include ‘Paul Revere’s Ride’, The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline.
What is an aside?
An aside is a dramatic device in which a character speaks directly to the audience.
What is fiction?
Fiction is the classification for any story created by the imagination and, therefore, not based strictly on history or fact.
What is a couplet?
A couplet is a pair of lines of metre in poetry.
What is internal conflict?
An internal conflict is the struggle occurring within a character’s mind.
What are stanzas?
In poetry, a stanza is a grouped set of lines within a poem, usually set off from other stanzas by a blank line or indentation.
What is a short story?
A short story is a piece of prose fiction that can be read in one sitting.
What is free verse?
Free verse is an open form of poetry.
What is an iamb?
An iamb or iambus is a metrical foot used in various types of poetry.
What is meter in poetry?
In poetry, meter describes organizing poetry around how words are emphasized to produce a rhythm.
What is a fact?
A fact is something that has really occurred or is actually the case.
What is plot?
Plot refers to the sequence of events inside a story which affect other events through the principle of cause and effect.
