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Allegory
A story or visual image with a second distinct meaning partially hidden behind its literal or visible meaning
Anecdote
A brief narrative of an entertaining and presumably true incident
Argument
Discourse intended to convince or persuade through appeals to reason or emotion
Autobiography
An account of all or a part of a person’s life written by that person
Bildungsroman
Translated literally means development novel
Biography
A written account of someone’s life, written by someone else, which focuses on the character and career of the subject
Comedy
A literary work written chiefly to amuse its audience. Usually provides a happy ending and emphasizes human limitations rather than human greatness
High comedy
Characterized by grace elegance and wit; intellectual comedy
Low comedy
Crude, boisterous comedy; slapstick and crude jokes; physical comedy
Confessional literature
Autobiographical writing in which the author discusses highly personal and private experiences normally withheld
Confessional literature
Autobiographical writing in which the author discusses highly personal and private experiences normally withheld
Convention
An accepted or expected style or form
Courtly love
Te emotion that a knight was expected to feel toward a noble lady
Didactic
Any text whose main purpose is to teach or instruct
Dirge
A funeral song of lamentation; a short lyric of mourning
Discourse
Spoken or written language
Argument
Discourse intended to convince or persuade through appeals to reason or emotion
Description
The picturing in words of people, places and activities through detailed observations of color, sound, smell, touch and motion
Exposition
The setting forth of a systematic explanation of or argument about any subject
Narration
The process of relation a sequence of events or another term for narrative
Rhetoric
The art of persuasion, in speaking or writing
Essay
A short written composition in prose that discusses a subject or proposes an argument without claiming to be a complete or through exposition
Epistolary
A novel written in the form of correspondence between characters
Eulogy
A formal composition or speech in high praise of someone
Exemplum
Brief table told to illustrate a biblical text or to teach a lesson or moral
Expose
Article exposing scandal or crime
Fable
A brief take that conveys a moral lesson, usually by giving human speech and manners to animals and inanimate things
Farce
A type of drama related to comedy but emphasizing improbable situations, violent conflicts, physical action; and coarse wit over characterization or articulated plot
Genre
A French term for a type of, species or lots of composition, such as novel poem, short story and such sub categories as sonic science fiction or mystery
Gothic
A type of novel characterized by mystery horror, and the supernatural often with haunted castles, secret passage ways, grisly vision, and all of the paraphernalia of the tale of terror
Historical novel
Attempt to re-create an historically significant personage or series of events
Homily
Religious sermon or discourse