Literary Terms Quiz, Part 3

Song that tells a story

• ballad
• mock epic
• ode
• elegy

Pen name

• ridicule
• travesty
• picaro
• pseudonym

All of the following are characteristic of the gothic novel except:

• settings in dark castles
• picaresque episodes
• sentimentalism
• supernatural horrors

Figurative story

• epistolary novel
• allegory
• invective
• bildungsroman

Conceit

• irony
• elegiac
• elaborate comparison
• ridicule

Lyric poem, usually lengthy

• ode
• ballad
• novella
• sonnet

The Odyssey and the Iliad both begin:

• in media res
• as a roman a clef
• with a deus ex machina
• with a framing device

Coming-of-age story

• existentialist novel
• burlesque
• dystopian novel
• bildungsroman

Lyric poem, usually about death

• ballad
• epic
• elegy
• bildungsroman

Personal attack or denunciation

• parody
• invective
• burlesque
• soliloquy