Poetry
Satire
Tragedy
Comedy
Narrative
100
The four major focuses of poetry.
What are sound, pattern, compression and imagery.
100
The definition of satire.
What is "a playfully critical distortion of the familiar"?
100
This is the tone in which tragedy is written.
What is serious and somber.
100
All comedies are characterized by this tone.
What is humorous
100
This point of view solely expresses the perspective of a character in the work.
What is first person.
200
A formal lament on the death of a particular person.
What is an elegy?
200
Individual, institutional, and cosmic
What are the three objects of satire?
200
These are the characteristics of a tragic hero.
What is of high status and great ability.
200
Most comedies end with one of these two events.
What are freedom or marriage.
200
Word choice and imagery are devices used to convey this narrative element.
What is tone?
300
A poetry term for a stong pause in a line of verse.
What is a caesura?
300
Exaggeration, reductio ad absurdum, and caricature are all examples of this kind of comic device.
What is incongruity?
300
This is an insight the hero experiences after his fall.
What is a recognition.
300
In Twelfth Night this comic stereotype is present in Malvolio.
What is a bad slave.
300
Theme is most often expressed through these two elements of literature.
What are plot and characterization.
400
This literary device is present in words such a "buzzing."
What is onomatopoeia?
400
The audience experiences this at the end of a tragedy.
What is catharsis.
400
Near the end of a comedy, the plot often takes a turn toward this type of event.
What is disaster or tragedy.
400
This setting is used to represent freedom in The Life and Times of Michael K.
What is the mountains
500
The names of the two different sonnet forms.
What are Petrarchan (Italian) and Shakespearean (Elizabethan).
500
Forest Gump is an example of this kind of satiric hero.
What is an anti-hero?
500
This group in a tragedy contributes to the audiences's understanding of the situation.
What is the chorus
500
The language in comedy is usually described this way.
What is "low style."
500
A type of plot structure illustrated by Their Eyes were Watching God.
What is "framed narrative."
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