Style
Descriptors
Archetype
Poetry
Comedy
100

This term is a complex writing style that ignores examples when providing points.


What is Abstract 

100

This term is used as an adjective meaning “appealing the senses”.

What is Aesthetic 

100

The main character in literary work.

What is Protagonist

100

This term describes a fixed number of lines in a verse forming a unit of a poem.

What is Stanza

100

This term is the use of disturbing themes in comedy.

What is Black Humor 

200

This term is often used to describe people who write in an old fashioned way on purpose. 

What is Archaism 

200

This term is the attribution oh human characteristics to animals or non living object. 

What is Anthropomorphism

200

This term describes the main characters arch enemy.

What is Nemesis

200

This term is used to describe an unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical plan.

What is Free Verse

200

This is a comedy that contains an extravagant and nonsensical disregard of seriousness even though it might have a serious purpose.  

What is Farce

300

This term is used to describe dry, analytical and lifeless writing styles. 

What is Academic

300

This term is a figure of speech that uses exaggeration.

What is Hyperbole

300

This term describes the main character who lacks the characteristics that would make them a hero.

What is Antihero

300

This term describes a popular narrative usually in lyric form.

What is Ballad

300

This term is ridicule with satire also named after a comedy Christmas movie 

What is Lampoon 

400

This term is a writing style in which supernatural horrors and unknown terrors are key to the writing styles.

What is Gothic Novel

400

This term uses the reversal of normal words.

What is Inversion 

400

This term is used to describe standard character types. 

What is Stock Characters

400

This term is a rhythmic flow of a sequence if words or sounds.

What is Cadence 

400

This term refers to a work which imitates another.

What is Parody 

500

This term is a writing style that idealizes the life of a Shepard. 

What is Pastoral

500

This term is a contrast of peoples assumption vs reality.

What is Irony

500

This term describes the character flaw that leads to their downfall.  

What is Tragic Flaw

500

This term is a division of a long poem.

What is Canto

500

This term is a form of over the top theatre where all of the characters are exaggerating their assigned roles.

What is Melodrama