AP LIT SUMMER VOCAB FINAL

7. NOVEL TYPES

  1. Allegory
    Denotation    : A story that uses symbols to convey a deeper meaning as conveyed by the author. I.e. it has to be intentional.
    Example: Animal Farm by George Orwell.

  2. Bildungsroman
    Denotation    : A coming-of-age story, focusing on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist.
    Example: The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger.

  3. Epistolary Novel
    Denotation    : A novel written as a series of letters.
    Example: Dracula by Bram Stoker.

  4. Picaresque Novel
    Denotation    : A novel that depicts the adventures of a roguish hero of low social class who lives by their wits.
    Example: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes.













8. WRITING MOVEMENTS/GENRES

PUT THEM IN ORDER FROM OLDEST TO NEWEST

  1. Gothic (GOTHIC VS DARK ROMANTICISM)
    Years    : 1764–mid-19th century.

Mystery, horror, gloom, or death, and lowercase romance
Example: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.

  1. Impressionism

style that relies on abstract associations, the subjective point of view of the characters, and the rendering of sensory details to relay the “impression” of a person or event
Years: Late 19th–early 20th century.
Example: The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad

  1. Modernism

Conscious break with traditional ways of writing, experimental and intentionally broke current norm.
Years: 1920s–1945.
Example: Ulysses by James Joyce. Great Gatsby

  1. Naturalism

Extension of realism. Literary movement in which authors encompass how society, socioeconomics, gvnt, etc play a part in making the human character.
Years: 1880s–1940s.
Example: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. Of Mice and Men, also (same auth)

  1. Puritanism

Writing style of America’s early English-speaking colonists. Emphasizes obedience to God and consists mainly of journals, sermons, and poems.
Years: 1620–1770s.
Example: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

  1. Postmodernism

a form of literature that is characterized by the use of metafiction, unreliable narration, self-reflexivity, intertextuality, and which often thematizes both historical and political issues

Rejects the idea that things are definite and references chaos in the world. Metafiction (references book within book)
Years: 1940s–present.
Example: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut. Margaret Atwood Handmaid’s Tale

  1. Realism

Movement that aims to depict everyday life with no romanticization
Years: 1850s–early 20th century.
Example: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert.

  1. Magical Realism

Blends reality and fantasy as normal occurrences. I.e. MHA - realistic narration but with surreal ideas.
Years: 1920s–1930s.
Example: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez.

  1. Romanticism

a revolt against Rationalism that affected literature and the other arts, beginning in the late eighteenth century and remaining strong throughout most of the nineteenth century. EXTREME DETAIL. Percey Shelley


Years: 1800–1870.
Example: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.

  1. Dark Romanticism

focused on emotion above intellect, importance of nature, covers supernatural. Anyone can fall to immorality. Fascination with grotesque, rational, demonic

Nature is out to get me, weather is dangerous
Years: 1840s–1870s.
Example: The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe.

  1. Transcendentalism

DIVINITY IN NATURE. VERY DETAILED

 a nineteenth century movement in the Romantic tradition, which held that every individual can reach ultimate truths through spiritual intuition, which transcends reasons and sensory experience. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau.
Years: 1830s–1850s.
Example: Walden by Henry David Thoreau.