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| A long work of fiction that tells about the events in the lives of real or imaginary persons. |
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| Highly imaginative writing that contains elements not found in real life. |
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| A story composed orally and then passed from person to person by word of mouth |
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| A long narrative poem about the adventures of gods or of a hero. |
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| A story with a religious lesson. It allegorically answers a question or expresses a moral or truth. |
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| A philosophy which requires that man go beyond reason in his search for truth, especially via intuition or instinct if he is willing to meditate upon basic truths. |
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| The recording of events or situations as they have affected the mind, dealing with vague thoughts and remembrances. |
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| A literary and artistic movement of the 18th and 19th centuries emphasizing imagination, fancy, freedom, emotion, wildness, the beauty of the untamed natural world, the rights of the individual, the nobility of the common man, and the attractiveness of pastoral life. |
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| The presentation in art of the details of actual life. |
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| A term applied to a kind of philosophical religious, and artistic thought that empasizes exsitence rather than abstract ideas and asserts that human reason is inadqequate to explain the meaning of life. |
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| A movement in art and literature that emphasizes the irrational sideof human nature, focusing on the imaginary world of dreams and th eunconscious mind. |
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| A literary movement growing out of Realism in which the negative and sordid side of the life is emphasized. |
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| Writing which uses the country or rural setting with shepherds, etc. |
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| The use of details which are common in a certain region or section of the country |
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| A type of fiction which is usually characterized by gloomy castles, ghosts, and supernatural or sensational happenings - All of which is supposed to create a mysterious, chilling, and frightening story, )e.g. Poe's works) |
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| A traditional story which attempts to explain or justify a certain practice, belief, or natural phenonmenon of a people. |
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| A story, a fictional or nonfictional, in which characters, things, and events represent qualities or concepts. |
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