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Ballad
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Short, narrative poem relating a single dramatic event
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Folk ballad
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Short, narrative poem composed to be sung
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Ballade
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Verse form from 14th and 15th century France, usually with an envoy used as a dedication or address to an important person
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Chronicle plays
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Dramas based on 16th century English chronicles; "patriotic"
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Closet drama
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Play meant to be read rather than performed
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Elegy
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Reflective poem of lamentation or regret
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Epic
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Long, exalted narrative poem; usually a serious subject focused on heroic figure
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Epithalamium
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Song or poem written to celebrate a marriage (Song of Solomon)
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Essay
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Short literary piece in prose that discusses a topic or attempts to persuade
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Fabliau
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Comic, bawdy, satirical tales (ex: Canterbury Tales)
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Farce
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Light, comic theatrical piece with exaggerated characters
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Gothic roman
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Mysteries written in late 18th - early 19th century England, usually taking place in medieval ruins or haunted castles
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Haiku
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Unrhymed Japanese poem recording essence of a moment keenly perceived (5-7-5)
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Hornbook
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Primer used in 15th-16th century for children
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Idyl
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Short poem
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Limerick
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Short, nonsensical, ribald, humorous verse (popular rather than literary)
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Picaresque novel
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Novel in which an underdog has a series of episodic adventures in which he sees the world (satricial commentary)
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Epistolary novel
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Novel told through a series of letters between protagonists
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Naturalistic novel
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Novel that studies that effects of heredity versus environment on human beings
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Social novel
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Regional novel that describes the life of the people in a particular place
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Metaphysical novel
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Novel focusing on creation, judgment and redemption
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Pastoral
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Shepherd's life presented in a conventional manner (told in many forms)
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Novel of manners
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Novel that studies the conventions of a particular group in a particular time
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Name two authors of fables
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Aesop
Jean de la Fontaine
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Satire
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A story that criticizes and exposes human vices
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Give three examples of books and authors of children's fantasy books
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Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Baum
Winnie-the-Pooh, Milne
Mary Poppins, Travers
The Hobbit, Tolkein
The Chronicles of Narnia, Lewis
Wrinkle in Time, L'Engle
Red Wall Series, Jacque
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Give two examples of adventure or mystery books for children
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Wind in the Willows, Graham
Island of the Blue Dolphins, O'Dell
Sounder, Armstrong
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Give an example of a socially relevant children's book
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Outsiders, Hinton
I Am the Cheese, Cormier
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Name two authors of Tudor Lyric poetry
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Shakespeare, Sir Walter Raleigh
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Name an example of epic poetry from England, 17th century
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Paradise Lost, Milton
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Gray
Rape of the Lock, Pope
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Name an example of Restoration comedy (sexual politics)
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Country Wife, William Wycherly
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Give an example of a picaresque novel
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Moll Flanders, Daniel DeFoe
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Captivity narrative
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American Puritan story of a woman captured by Indians, resists and is delivered into salvation (Humiliations Follow'd with Deliverances, Cotton Mather)
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Plantation tradition novels
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Works that look back fondly to pre-Civil War times, characters are white, paternalistic masters, "happy darkies". 1880s to 1900s
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Realism (American)
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Literature that represents middle-class life, backlash to romanticism. Civil War to turn of the century.
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Name three American realist authors
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Mark Twain
William Dean Howells
Rebecca Harding Davis
John W. DeForest
Henry James
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Slave narrative
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Autobiographical accounts of ante-Bellum former slaves (1830-1890)
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Name three authors of slave narratives
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Frederick Douglass
Nat Turner
William Wells Brown
Harriet Jacobs
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