What is a genre in Literature in English?

Question

What do literary terms like genre, satire,and allegory mean?

Answer 1

OK. What you need is called a DICTIONARY. You'll find it in the REFERENCE section of your local book shop.

Answer 2

Surely you need a break from essay writing or marking? Read a book and find out what literary terms like genre, satire and allegory mean.

Answer 3

Genre :- way of categorising a particular media text according to its content and style.
Genres are often divided into subgenres. Literature, for instance, can be organized according to the "poetic genres" and the "prose genres". Poetry might be subdivided into epic, lyric, and dramatic, while prose might be subdivided into fiction and non-fiction. Further subdivisions of dramatic poetry, for instance, might include comedy, tragedy, melodrama, and so forth. This parsing into subgenres can continue: "comedy" has its own genres, for example, including farce, comedy of manners, burlesque, and satire. and so on...............

Satire:- A literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony, derision, or wit.; witty language used to convey insults or scorn
Saturday Night Live is a great example of a show that has several skits that are satires. anything that makes fun of something else is a satire. For example "The Keystone Cops" were a satire of police services at the time.

Allegory:- is something that is used to express something else, A symbolic representation
Aesop's Fables are allegories
The blindfolded figure with scales is an allegory of justice.

Answer 4

a Genre is a type or class of literature like Comedy, drama, tragedy, etc.

A satire is a literary work in which a human vice is attacked through irony or wit. (Sarcasm, caricature, etc.)

Allegory is the representation of abstract ideas through charachters and stories. Ie:The blindfolded figure with scales is an allegory of justice.

Answer 5

A genre is a type of literature - novel, even, say, detective novel, or romance. Satire is a send-up - usually very intellectual. An allegory is a parable - a story that illustrates an idea.

Answer 6

genre, is the area or style, such as comedy, farce
satire is a type of humour, mostly politcal. like a low level farce
allegory is a story that is link to a moral, usually the bible's morals

eg. As far as political satire is concerned 1984 can be seen as the epitome of the genre, it is allegoricall in its deconstruction of 20 th century government

Answer 7

A genre is best thought of as a kind or type or class. For example Mickey Spillane wrote a large number of detective novels with the character Mike Hammer. This belonged to a pulp fiction genre.

Do you see?

Answer 8

gen·re P Pronunciation Key (zhänr)
n.
A type or class: “Emaciated famine victims... on television focused a new genre of attention on the continent” (Helen Kitchen).
A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, marked by a distinctive style, form, or content: “his six String Quartets... the most important works in the genre since Beethoven's” (Time).
A realistic style of painting that depicts scenes from everyday life.

genre

n 1: a kind of literary or artistic work 2: a style of expressing yourself in writing [syn: writing style, literary genre] 3: an expressive style of music [syn: music genre, musical genre, musical style] 4: a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique

sat·ire P Pronunciation Key (str)
n.
A literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony, derision, or wit.
The branch of literature constituting such works. See Synonyms at caricature.
Irony, sarcasm, or caustic wit used to attack or expose folly, vice, or stupidity.

satire

n : witty language used to convey insults or scorn; "he used sarcasm to upset his opponent"; "irony is wasted on the stupid"; "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own"--Johathan Swift [syn: sarcasm, irony, caustic remark]

l·le·go·ry P Pronunciation Key (l-gôr, -gr)
n. pl. al·le·go·ries
The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters, figures, or events in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form.
A story, picture, or play employing such representation. John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and Herman Melville's Moby Dick are allegories.
A symbolic representation: The blindfolded figure with scales is an allegory of justice.


allegory

n 1: a short moral story (often with animal characters) [syn: fable, parable, apologue] 2: a visible symbol representing an abstract idea [syn: emblem] 3: an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor

Answer 9

A genre is a type of literature, like mystery, romance, or science fiction.

Satire is a type of humor where a writer makes fun of something. Johnathan Swift wrote a lot of famous satires.

Allegory is when something stands for something else, like in Animal Farm, where the animals represented human types.

Answer 10

a genre is a particular sort of writing.

a novel is one genre.

short stories is another genre.

narrative poems.

lyric poems.

essays.

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to properly understand literary terminology you should probably buy yourself a handbook.

but for specific questions the link below is good enough.

Answer 11

hmm.. w/o looking in a book or consulting www.dictionary.com, off the top of my head i would say

genre: category, type of literature (example, Children's lit, or Fiction)

satire: poking fun of, making fun of, parody

allegory: story that parallels or teaches something