Before You Take LIT 101

Preface: Are You Postliterate?
The Postliteracy Quiz
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ACTION
ALLITERATION
AMERICAN LITERATURE
ANTAGONIST
ANTHROPOMORPHISM
APOCALYPTIC FICTION
ASSONANCE
BAD TASTE
BEAR
BESTSELLER
BIAS
BIOGRAPHY
CAESURA
CARPE DIEM
CERVANTES, MIGUEL DE
CHARACTER
CHAUCER
CHICK LIT
CHIMERA
CLASSIC
CLASSICAL LITERATURE
CLICHE
COINCIDENCE
COMEDY
CONCRETE POETRY
CONFLICT
COPYRIGHT
CRITICAL THINKING
DAMSEL IN DISTRESS
DEAD METAPHOR
DECONSTRUCTION
DEIRDRE
DENOUEMENT
DERIVATIVE FICTION
DIALOGUE
DICKENS, CHARLES
DICKINSON, EMILY
DILEMMA
DOLOMPHIOUS DUCK
DRAGON
DRAMA
DRAMATIC EFFECT
DREAM SEQUENCE
DYSTOPIAN FICTION
E.G.
ELEGY
ELLIPSIS
ENGLISH LITERATURE
EPIC
ESCAPIST LITERATURE
ESSAY
EUPHEMISM
EXAGGERATION
EXOTICISM
FABLE
FALSE ENDING
FANTASY
FRANKENSTEIN
GHOST
GOTHIC NOVEL
GOOD TASTE
GRAPHIC NOVEL
HAMLET
HEMINGWAY, ERNEST
HERO
HEROINE
HISTORY
HOMAGE
HORROR
HYPERBOLE
I.E.
JOHNSON, SAMUEL
JOURNALISM
KEATSNSHELLEY
'KRAKEN'
KROWE, KARYON
LIES
LITERARY CRITICISM
LYRICS
MESOZEUGMA
METAPHOR
MICROFICTION
MYSTERY
MYTH
NONSENSE
NOTSUPOSTA
NOVEL
OBJECTIVITY
PADDING
PICARESQUE NOVEL
PLAGIARISM
PLOT
PLOT GENERATOR
POETRY
POINT OF VIEW
PRINT CULTURE
PROSE
PROTAGONIST
PUBLIC DOMAIN
PUN
QUATRAIN
RESEARCH
RHYME
RUE MORGUE
SCIENCE FICTION
SEQUEL
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
SHORT STORY
SOLILOQUY
STOCK CHARACTER
STRAW MAN
SUBJECTIVITY
SURREALISM
SUSPENSE
SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF
TECHNO-THRILLER
TRAGEDY
TREES
UTOPIAN FICTION
VERSE
VILLAIN
WORLD LITERATURE
XENOPHON
YORICK
ZEUGMA
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