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75 Cards in this Set
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Adventure Novel
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A novel where exciting events are more important than character development and sometimes theme
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Allegory
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A figurative work in which a surface narrative carries a secondary, symbolic or metaphorical meaning
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Apologue
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A moral fable, usually featuring personified animals or inanimate objects which act like people to allow the author to comment on the human condition. Often, the apologue highlights the irrationality of mankind
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Autobiographical Novel
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A novel based on the author's life experience
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Blank Verse
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Unrhymed iambic pentameter.
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Caesura
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A pause, metrical or rhetorical, occurring somewhere in a line of poetry
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Canon
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Recognized body of work considered the greatest works; historically the western canon has been written by dead white men
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Children's novel
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A novel written for children and discerned by one or more of these: (1) a child character or a character a child can identify with, (2) a theme or themes (often didactic) aimed at children, (3) vocabulary and sentence structure available to a young reader.
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Christian novel
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A novel either explicitly or implicitly informed by Christian faith and often containing a plot revolving around the Christian life, evangelism, or conversion stories.
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Coming-of-age story
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A type of novel where the protagonist is initiated into adulthood through knowledge, experience, or both, often by a process of disillusionment.
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Conceit
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An elaborate, usually intellectually ingenious poetic comparison or image, such as an analogy or metaphor in which, say a beloved is compared to a ship, planet, etc.
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Detective novel
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A novel focusing on the solving of a crime, often by a brilliant detective, and usually employing the elements of mystery and suspense
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Dystopian novel
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An anti-utopian novel where, instead of a paradise, everything has gone wrong in the attempt to create a perfect society
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End-stopped
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A line that has a natural pause at the end (period, comma, etc.)
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Enjambed
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The running over of a sentence or thought into the next couplet or line without a pause at the end of the line; a run-on line.
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Epic
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An extended narrative poem recounting actions, travels, adventures, and heroic episodes and written in a high style (with ennobled diction, for example).
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Epistolary novel
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A novel consisting of letters written by a character or several characters.
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Euphemism
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The substitution of a mild or less negative word or phrase for a harsh or blunt one, as in the use of "pass away" instead of "die."
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Euphuism
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A highly ornate style of writing popularized by John Lyly's Euphues, characterized by balanced sentence construction, rhetorical tropes, and multiplied similes and allusions.
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Existentialist novel
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A novel written from an existentialist viewpoint, often pointing out the absurdity and meaninglessness of existence.
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Fantasy novel
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Any novel that is disengaged from reality
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Flashback
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A device that allows the writer to present events that happened before the time of the current narration or the current events in the fiction
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Foot
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The basic unit of meter consisting of a group of two or three syllables
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Frame
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A narrative structure that provides a setting and exposition for the main narrative in a novel
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Free verse
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Verse that has neither regular rhyme nor regular meter
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Gothic novel
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A novel in which supernatural horrors and an atmosphere of unknown terror pervades the action
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Heroic Couplet
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Two lines of rhyming iambic pentameter
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Historical novel
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A novel where fictional characters take part in actual historical events and interact with real people from the past
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Horatian Satire
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In general, a gentler, more good humored and sympathetic kind of satire, somewhat tolerant of human folly even while laughing at it
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Humanism
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The new emphasis in the Renaissance on human culture, education and reason, sparked by a revival of interest in classical Greek and Roman literature, culture, and language.
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Humours
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In medieval physiology, four liquids in the human body affecting behavior.
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Hypertext novel
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A novel that can be read in a nonsequential way
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Interactive novel
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A novel with more than one possible series of events or outcomes
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Invective
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Speech or writing that abuses, denounces, or attacks.
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Irony
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A mode of expression, through words (verbal irony) or events (irony of situation), conveying a reality different from and usually opposite to appearance or expectation.
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Juvenalian Satire
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Harsher, more pointed, perhaps intolerant satire typified by the writings of Juvenal.
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Lampoon
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A crude, coarse, often bitter satire ridiculing the personal appearance or character of a person
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Literary quality
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A judgment about the value of a novel as literature.
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Metaphysical Poetry
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The term metaphysical was applied to a style of 17th Century poetry first by John Dryden and later by Dr. Samuel Johnson because of the highly intellectual and often abstruse imagery involved.
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Meter
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The rhythmic pattern produced when words are arranged so that their stressed and unstressed syllables fall into a more or less regular sequence, resulting in repeated patterns of accent (called feet).
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Mock Epic
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Treating a frivolous or minor subject seriously, especially by using the machinery and devices of the epic (invocations, descriptions of armor, battles, extended similes, etc.).
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Multicultural novel
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A novel written by a member of or about a cultural minority group, giving insight into non-Western or non-dominant cultural experiences and values, either in the United States or abroad.
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Mystery novel
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A novel whose driving characteristic is the element of suspense or mystery.
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Novel
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a novel is an extended prose fiction narrative of 50,000 words or more, broadly realistic--concerning the everyday events of ordinary people--and concerned with character. "People in significant action" is one way of describing it.
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Novella
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A prose fiction longer than a short story but shorter than a novel.
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Novel of manners
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A novel focusing on and describing in detail the social customs and habits of a particular social group.
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Parody
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A satiric imitation of a work or of an author with the idea of ridiculing the author, his ideas, or work.
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Persona
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The person created by the author to tell a story.
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Petrarchan Conceit
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The kind of conceit used by Italian Renaissance poet Petrarch and popular in Renaissance English sonnets
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Picaresque novel
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An episodic, often autobiographical novel about a rogue or picaro (a person of low social status) wandering around and living off his wits
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Pseudonym
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A "false name" or alias used by a writer desiring not to use his or her real name.
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Pulp fiction
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Novels written for the mass market, intended to be "a good read,"--often exciting, titillating, thrilling
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Regional novel
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A novel faithful to a particular geographic region and its people, including behavior, customs, speech, and history
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Rhyme
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The similarity between syllable sounds at the end of two or more lines
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Ridicule
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Words intended to belittle a person or idea and arouse contemptuous laughter
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Roman a clef
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A novel in which historical events and actual people are written about under the pretense of being fiction.
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Romance
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An extended fictional prose narrative about improbable events involving characters that are quite different from ordinary people
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Sarcasm
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A form of sneering criticism in which disapproval is often expressed as ironic praise
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Satire
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A literary mode based on criticism of people and society through ridicule
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Science fiction novel
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A novel in which futuristic technology or otherwise altered scientific principles contribute in a significant way to the adventures
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Sentimental novel
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A type of novel, popular in the eighteenth century, that overemphasizes emotion and seeks to create emotional responses in the reader
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Sequel
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A novel incorporating the same characters and often the same setting as a previous novel.
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Series
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Several novels related to each other, by plot, setting, character, or all three
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Setting
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The total environment for the action of a fictional work
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Sonnet
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A fourteen line poem, usually in iambic pentameter, with a varied rhyme scheme
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Spenserian Stanza
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A nine-line stanza, with the first eight lines in iambic pentameter and the last line in iambic hexameter (called an Alexandrine).
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Style
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The manner of expression of a particular writer, produced by choice of words, grammatical structures, use of literary devices, and all the possible parts of language use.
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Subplot
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A subordinate or minor collection of events in a novel or drama.
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Symbol
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Something that on the surface is its literal self but which also has another meaning or even several meanings.
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Tone
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The writer's attitude toward his readers and his subject; his mood or moral view
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Travesty
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A work that treats a serious subject frivolously-- ridiculing the dignified
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Utopian novel
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A novel that presents an ideal society where the problems of poverty, greed, crime, and so forth have been eliminated
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Verisimilitude
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How fully the characters and actions in a work of fiction conform to our sense of reality
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Versification
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Generally, the structural form of a verse, as revealed by scansion.
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Western.
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A novel set in the western United States featuring the experiences of cowboys and frontiersmen.
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