Different forms of literature
Narration
Characters
Drama
Literary eras
100
The most common form of literature. Usually a fairly long book, with a story-line divided into chapters.
What is a novel?
100
One of the most common forms of narrative, where the story is told by one character at a time, speaking about themselves. An example: "I went down to the store to get some milk."
What is first-person narrative?
100
The name for a character that shows a lot of personal traits and who the readers get to know in a detailed way.
What is a round character?
100
The name of the perhaps most well-known figure in drama and theater. Responsible for such classics as Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet and A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Who is William Shakespeare?
100
The era when people started to experiment with narration, chronological order and mixing of styles. Famous authors include James Joyce and Virginia Woolf.
What is Modernism?
200
Brief form of literature, often only including a few characters, story lines and settings.
What is a short story?
200
The name for when the narrator of a story only knows the thoughts of one or a few characters.
What is limited narrator?
200
The name for a character that show only one or a few personal traits during a story.
What is a flat character?
200
A very famous street in New York City, where lots and lots of plays, musicals and shows have been performed over the years.
What is Broadway?
200
A literary era which often included both beauty and horror and features such authors as Mary Shelly (who wrote Frankenstein) and Charlotte Brontë (who wrote Jane Eyre).
What is Romanticism?
300
The term for books that revolves around the life events of a real-life person, and is written by that very person.
What is an autobiography?
300
The name for when the narrator of a story has access to all the characters' minds.
What is omniscient narrator?
300
The name for the "enemy" of the main character in a story (the one who is causing the conflict/battle/argument).
What is an antagonist?
300
The title of a person who writes dramatic literature or drama.
What is a playwright?
300
The era when it was fashionable to be well-educated and informed. Philosophers such as Voltaire and Rosseau were among the names from this period.
What is Enlightenment?
400
The opposite of "poetry", and the form of language that is usually used in most story-telling literature.
What is prose?
400
The narrative technique that has the aim of entering a character's mind and conveying them to the reader exactly as they appear in the character's head, often without structure and logic.
What is stream of consciousness?
400
The name for a character that goes through a significant change or development during the course of a story.
What is a dynamic character?
400
A world famous theater building in London, which has been in existence in one way or another since the year of 1599.
What is The Globe Theater (or Shakespeare's Globe)?
400
During this era, people started questioning the role of the individual and authors such as Albert Camus (who wrote The Stranger) and Jean Paul Sartre were extremely influential.
What is Existentialism?
500
A sort of middle-way between short story and novel. Not quite as long and intricate as a novel, but longer and more expansive than a short story.
What is a novella?
500
The name for a narrator that doesn't necessarily tell the truth or is biased in any way.
What is unreliable narrator?
500
The name for a character that doesn't evolve, develop or change significantly during a story.
What is a static character?
500
This is what "drama" actually means in original greek language.
What is "action"?
500
This was a literary era that appeared after World War II, and focused on the free-spirit of mankind. The stories often involved experimentation with drugs, rejection of materialism and alternative sexualities. The most famous author is perhaps Jack Kerouac.
What is The Beat Generation?
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