Literature
A form of written or spoken language that follows the natural flow of speech and ordinary grammatical structure, without the rhythmic patterns or rhymes found in poetry.
Prose
A traditional Japanese form of poetry consisting of three lines with a syllable pattern of 5-7-5.
This consists of a first syllable that is stressed, and the next syllable as unstressed. The pattern can be represented as "DUM-da" (/ x).
Trochee
This is a medium-length work of fiction that is shorter than a novel but longer than a short story, usually ranging from 20,000 to 50,000 words.
Novella
What is the name of the boy in Magnificence?
Oscar
This is a very short piece of prose fiction, typically under 1,000 words, that still offers character and plot development. Flash fiction often focuses on a single moment or scene and hints at a larger story.
Flash Fiction
A kind narrative poem that tells a story, often in a song-like structure with simple rhyme scheme
Ballad
This is a line of poetry that has 7 feet.
heptameter
This describes a narrative where events unfold in a linear, straightforward manner, with little deviation from the main storyline.
Flat Model
What is the main symbol in the story "May Day Eve"?
Mirror
The oldest literary form.
Poetry
Homer's The Iliad is an example of this type of poetry.
Epic
This refers to the use of descriptive language to create vivid mental pictures or appeal to the senses
Imagery
This is another word for resolution.
Denouement
The Emperor's New Clothes
A school of literary criticism that emerged in Russia in the early 20th century. It emphasizes a text's form and structure over its content or historical context.
Russian Formalism
This is the rhyme scheme of a Petrarchan Sonnet.
ABBAABBA CDECDE or CDCDCD
The line "Hope is the thing with feathers" uses this figurative language.
Metaphor
This person is the namesake for the Freytag's Model.
Gustav Freytag
In "The God Stealer", to what ethnic group does Philip Latak belong to?
Ifugao
The English word for ostranenie which suggests that literature should make the familiar, the mundane, seem strange and new.
Defamiliarization
This person wrote Leda and the Swan.
William Butler Yeats
George Orwell's Animal Farm has a line that says "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
What figurative language is used here?
Paradox
In this type of point of view, the narrator reports only what is seen and heard without access to the characters' inner thoughts or feelings.
Third-person limited
Dead stars ends with the following paragraphs:
So all these – since when? – he had been seeing the light of dead stars, long extinguished, yet seemingly still in their appointed places in the heavens.
An immense sadness of loss invaded his spirit, a vast homesickness for some immutable refuge of the heart far away where faded gardens bloom again, and where live on in unchanging freshness, the dear, dead loves of vanished youth.
What do you call a moment of sudden and great revelation or realization?
Epiphany