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1. A composition that is meant to be performed. The term often is used interchangeably with play.

2. A ritualized form of Japanese drama that evolved in the 1300s involving masks and slow - stylized movement.

3. A fictional prose narrative of significant length.

4. A serious lyric poem - often of significant length - that usually conforms to an elaborate metrical structure.

5. A genre of fiction that presents an imagined future society that purports to be perfect and utopian but that the author presents to the reader as horrifyingly inhuman.

6. A serious play that ends unhappily for the protagonist.

7. A humorous and often satirical imitation of the style or particular work of another author.

8. A novel set in an earlier historical period that features a plot shaped by the historical circumstances of that period.

9. Fiction that concerns the nature of fiction itself - either by reinterpreting a previous fictional work or by drawing attention to its own fictional status.

10. A romance that describes the adventures of medieval knights and celebrates their strict code of honor - loyalty - and respectful devotion to women.

11. A nonrealistic story - in verse or prose - that features idealized characters - improbable adventures - and exotic settings.

12. A short prose or verse narrative - such as those by Aesop - that illustrates a moral - which often is stated explicitly at the end.

13. A particularly compressed and truncated short story. They are rarely longer than 1 -000 words.

14. A short poetic composition that describes the thoughts of a single speaker.

15. A play consisting of a single act - without intermission and running usually less than an hour.

16. An autobiographical poetic genre in which the poet discusses intensely personal subject matter with unusual frankness.

17. A work that imitates the style of a previous author - work - or literary genre. Alternatively - the term may refer to a work that contains a hodgepodge of elements or fragments from different sources or influences. It differs from parody in that its

18. A formal poem that laments the death of a friend or public figure - or - occasionally - a meditation on death itself. In Greek and Latin poetry - the term applies to a specific type of meter (alternating hexameters and pentameters) regardless of cont

19. A work of prose fiction that is much shorter than a novel (rarely more than forty pages) and focused more tightly on a single event.

20. A story about a heroic figure derived from oral tradition and based partly on fact and partly on fiction.

21. A poetic work that features the strong rhythms of free versebut is presented on the page in the form of prose - without line breaks.

22. A novel that tells a nonfictional - autobiographical story but uses novelistic techniques - such as fictionalized dialogue or anecdotes - to add color - immediacy - or thematic unity.

23. Any composition not written in verse.

24. An invented narrative - as opposed to one that reports true events.

25. A play from the Middle Ages featuring saints or miraculous appearances by the Virgin Mary.

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