Classic Literary Genres
MYP command terms for language and literature
Related concepts in language and literature
Genres
Fiction
100
a play for theater, radio, or television.
Drama
100
Abstract a general theme or major point(s).
Summarize
100
The representation of persons in narrative and dramatic works. This may include direct methods like the attribution of qualities in description or commentary, and indirect (or “dramatic”) methods inviting readers to infer qualities from characters’ actions, speech or appearance. When exploring the concept of character, students might explore transformation, influence, conflict, protagonist, antagonist, persona, foil, stock.
Character
100
A type or category of literature or film marked by certain shared features or conventions.
genres
100
Any work of literature that includes material that is invented or imagined, that is not a record of things as they actually happened.
Fiction
200
a novel or other prose narrative depicting heroic or marvelous deeds
Romance
200
Choose from a list or group.
Select
200
The time and the place in which the action of a book, film, play, and so on happens. Setting may also include mood and atmosphere.
Setting
200
a play for theater, radio, or television.
Drama
200
fiction with strange or otherworldly settings or characters; fiction which invites suspension of reality
Fantasy
300
a play characterized by its humorous or satirical tone and its depiction of amusing people or incidents, in which the characters ultimately triumph over adversity.
Comedy
300
Give a judgment based on a given statement or result of a calculation.
Comment
300
The central idea or ideas the creator explores through a text.
Theme
300
a novel in comic-strip format.
Graphic Novel
300
fiction that has become part of an accepted literary canon, widely taught in schools
Classic
400
a form of drama based on human suffering that invokes in its audience an accompanying catharsis or pleasure in the viewing.
Tragedy
400
Break down in order to bring out the essential elements or structure. To identify parts and relationships, and interpret information to reach conclusions.
Analyze
400
The social, historical, cultural and workplace settings in which a text or work is produced.
Context
400
verse and rhythmic writing with imagery that creates emotional responses
Poetry
400
narration demonstrating a useful truth, especially in which animals speak as humans; legendary, supernatural tale
Fable
500
a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government or society itself, into improvement.
Satire
500
Give an account of the similarities and differences between two (or more) items or situations, referring to both (all) of them throughout. In language and literature, this may involve finding and evaluating the significance of similarities and connections between texts and requires the student to make a literary analysis.
Compare and Contrast
500
The characteristic way that a writer uses linguistic devices, literary devices and features for particular purposes and effects; for example, word choice, sentence structure, figurative devices, repetition, motif, allusion, imagery and symbolism.
Style
500
legend or traditional narrative, often based in part on historical events, that reveals human behavior and natural phenomena by its symbolism; often pertaining to the actions of the gods
Mithology
500
also known as romantic irony in the context of Romantic works of literature, uses self-reference to draw attention to itself as a work of art, while exposing the "truth" of a story
Metafiction
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