battle of the brains

Question 1

: use of language for its ability to provide signs that mean one thing
only

Answer 1

Denotative

Question 2

is the meaning that words have in addition to their direct meaning
(e.g., mother)

Answer 2

Connotative

Question 3

language that is different from everyday
language. The art of making language unfamiliar, breaking conventions.

Answer 3

Defamiliarization

Question 4

references to other works

Answer 4

Allusions:

Question 5

“anything that is written“

Answer 5

Gyasi (1973)

Question 6

“writing which expresses and communicates thought, feelings and
attitudes towards life”.

Answer 6

Rees (1973):

Question 7

“literature springs from our in born love of telling a story, of arranging
words in pleasing patterns, of expressing in words some special aspects of our human
experience”

Answer 7

Moody (1987)

Question 8

“literature from a functional perspective as the imaginative work that
gives us R’s: recreation, recognition, revelation and redemption”.

Answer 8

Boulton (1980)

Question 9

Literature is:

Answer 9

imaginative
 expresses thoughts and feelings
 deals with life experiences

Question 10

Forms are taken to mean the mode in which literature is expressed

Answer 10

Prose Fiction
 Prose non-fiction
 Poetry
 Drama

Question 11

Types of Prose Fiction

Answer 11

Allegory, * Parable: The Novelette: Short Story Romance:

Question 12

: Is short story like fable. The characters represent ideas (hope, love,
jealousy).

Answer 12

Allegory:

Question 13

Short story with religious principle, moral

Answer 13

Parable

Question 14

: Short novel

Answer 14

The Novelette:

Question 15

is short fiction in which story/characters are too detached from the real
life (e.g., Walpole’s Castle of Otranto)

Answer 15

Romance:

Question 16

Examples
Fable :

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The Ant & the Grasshopper:

Question 17

Allegory:

Answer 17

The Wise Woman’s Stone

Question 18

Ideas about life outside the story
 Ideas about real world
 The ideas from other works that reflect truth in literature (Literature becomes a form of
philosophy and universal wisdom about the nature of the world)
 may represent intellectual dilemmas rather than messages that resolve these
dilemmas. The story/novel may seem to have images, actions, characters, atmosphere
 Their ideas may be incompletely developed.

Answer 18

Theme

Question 19

Events and things that happen in a narrative, actions, statements, thoughts and feelings.
Events of the narrative. arrangement of events, linkage of events, author’s presentation of events
 Story all the events that we encounter in the narrative.

Answer 19

plot

Question 20

Types of plots:

Answer 20

Traditional: diagram
 Open ended
 Multiple plot lines

Question 21

Physical and sensuous world
 Place where the action takes place

Answer 21

Setting

Question 22

Contrast between appearance and reality

Answer 22

Irony

Question 23

work communicates a writer’s life experiences in an imaginative manner

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Prose

Question 24

When prose is ONLY about writer’s life experiences

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Autobiographical Literature:

Question 25

When prose recounts historical facts in an imaginatively way (not
necessarily as accurately as history

Answer 25

 Historical Literature :

Question 26

When it is about the life of another person

Answer 26

Biographical :

Question 27

characteristics…. Dramatic: The writer creates a real or imaginary
 world, and presents actions and reactions to this world in form of:
 Dialogues
 Conversations,
 Symbols (concrete objects used to represent serious ideas)
 Images (a series of concrete objects
 represent ideas, one following the other like a story
 Descriptions

Answer 27

prose

Question 28

This is the author or writer of a drama text or play.

Answer 28

Playwright:

Question 29

Communication between characters

Answer 29

Dialogues:

Question 30

is the kind of drama which does not involve dialogues.

Answer 30

MIME:

Question 31

is an outcome of a struggle for supremacy between the protagonist and
antagonist of the play. is usually resolved at the end of the play

Answer 31

Conflict

Question 32

are static
characters who do not change until the of the play.

Answer 32

Flat characters

Question 33

are dynamic and they grow and develop with the play. Everything about these
characters is revealed in the play and they are usually the protagonists.

Answer 33

Round characters,

Question 34

This is the main character in a play

Answer 34

Protagonists:

Question 35

These are the characters whose main aim is to challenge the protagonists.

Answer 35

Antagonists

Question 36

is the performable parts into which a drama is divided.

Answer 36

scene

Question 37

is the central plan or an outline of events in a play

Answer 37

plot

Question 38

suggests an introductory scene of the play. It can also be an address/
speech made before the beginning of a play performance.

Answer 38

prologue

Question 39

is the direct opposite of a prologue. This is a short scene is at the end. It serves the
purpose of a final address or a final speech at the close of dramatic performance.

Answer 39

epilogue