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type of traditional literature which is realistic and has a
Parable
moral
type of traditional literature which is an exaggerated
Legend
story about people
literary sub genre of a story that involves gods and
Myth
heroes, usually expressing a cultures ideals
type of traditional literature that is told in the
Folktale language of the people, does not need a moral, and
main purpose is to entertain
type of traditional literature that has an element of
Fairytales magic, usually follows a pattern, and presents and
"ideal", may contain "magic 3" or "stereotyping"
type of traditional literature that is non-realistic, has a
Fable
moral, and animals are often the main character of
Jesus- "The Prodigal Son", "The Good Samaritan", "The
Example of a Parable
Lost Coin"
Aesop- "The Fox and the Crane", "The Fox and the
Example of a Fable
Crow"
Charles Perrault, Grimm Brothers, Joseph Jacobs,
Fairy Tale authors
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jorgen Moe
, humorous folktale in which the reader can outsmart
noodlehead story
character(s)
movement in literature during the 18th and 19th
centuries that began in Germany and England,
Romanticism emphasized imagination, fancy, freedom, emotion,
wildness, beauty of the natural world, rights of
individuals, and pastoral life.
movement in literature during the 19th century in
France, reacted against the standards of realism,
Symbolism
emphasized being bend the material world of the 5
senses, poetic expression of complex feelings
Symbolism authors Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud
movement in literature in the beginning of the 20th
century that features the element of surprise,
unexpected juxtapositions, and non sequitur, aimed to
Surrealism
free people from what they saw as false rationality
and restrictive customs and structures. Sometimes
aligned with anarchists and communists
Andre Breton, influenced by Freud's free association
Surrealism authors work, dream analysis, and the unconscious to free
imagination
movement in literature in the 19th and 20th centuries
that emphasized individual existence, freedom, and
Existentialism
choice, believed that there is not objective rational
basis for moral choice
Soren Keirkegaard, Blaise Pascal, Friedrich Neitzsche,
Existentialism authors
Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre
American novelist best known as author of the novel
Louisa May Alcott Little Women (1868) Wrote about growing up poor in
New England during the Civil War