Literature
Poetry
Elements of Poetry
Fiction
Literary Works
100

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

100

A traditional Japanese form of poetry consisting of three lines with a syllable pattern of 5-7-5.

Haiku
100

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

100

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

100

What is the name of the boy in Magnificence?

Oscar

200

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

200

A kind narrative poem that tells a story, often in a song-like structure with simple rhyme scheme

Ballad

200

This is a line of poetry that has 7 feet.

heptameter

200

This describes a narrative where events unfold in a linear, straightforward manner, with little deviation from the main storyline.

Flat Model

200

What is the main symbol in the story "May Day Eve"?

Mirror

300

The oldest literary form. 

Poetry

300

Homer's The Iliad is an example of this type of poetry.

Epic

300

This refers to the use of descriptive language to create vivid mental pictures or appeal to the senses

Imagery

300

This is another word for resolution.

Denouement

300
The Emperor's New Sonnet alludes to what classic short story?

The Emperor's New Clothes

400

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

400

This is the rhyme scheme of a Petrarchan Sonnet.

ABBAABBA CDECDE or CDCDCD

400

The line "Hope is the thing with feathers" uses this figurative language.

Metaphor

400

This person is the namesake for the Freytag's Model.

Gustav Freytag

400

In "The God Stealer", to what ethnic group does Philip Latak belong to?

Ifugao

500

The English word for ostranenie which suggests that literature should make the familiar, the mundane, seem strange and new.

Defamiliarization

500

This person wrote Leda and the Swan.

William Butler Yeats

500

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

500

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

500

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