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Collection of texts or works of art
Class of writings in which imaginative expression, aesthetic form, universality of ideas and permanence are characteristic features as fiction, poetry and drama
Any printed material

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Literature

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According to ___, Literature is a performance in words

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Robert Frost

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According to ___, Literature consists of writings which interpret the meanings of nature and life, in words of charm and power, touched with the personality of the author in artistic forms of permanent interest

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Henry Van Dyke

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Forms of Literature/Two main division of literature:

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Prose and Poetry

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Composition usually written in verse. Rely heavily on imagery, precise word choice and metaphor; they may take the form of measures consisting of patterns of stresses or of patterns of different length syllables and they may not utilize rhyme

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Poem

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Patterns of stresses

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Metric feet

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Patterns of different length syllables

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Classical prosody

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Kinds of poetry

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A. Narrative poetry

Epic
Ballad
Metrical Tale
Metrical Romance

B. Lyric Poetry

Song
Sonnet
Elegy
Ode
Simple Lyric

Haiku

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Tells a story in verse

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Narrative poetry

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Retells in a continuous narrative the life and works of a heroic or mythological person or groups of persons

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Epic

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It is considered the oldest form of literature since its existence is known to be along the ancient history

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Epic

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Consists of writing that does not adhere to any particular formal structures (other than simple grammar). It is spoken or written language without metrical structure as distinguished from poetry or prose

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Prose

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Songlike poem that tells a story, often one dealing with adventure or romance

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Ballad

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Narrative poem that relates to real or imaginary events in simple, straight forward language from a wide range of subjects, characters, life experience and emotional situations

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Metrical tale

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Long narrative poem that presents remote or imaginative incidents rather than ordinary realistic experience

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Metrical Romance

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The term is originally used to refer to medieval tales of the deeds and loves of noble knights and ladies

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Romance

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Poem that expresses the emotions, feelings, and observations of the writer. Unlike a narrative poem, it presents an experience or a single effect, but it does not tell a full story

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lyric poetry

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lyric poem set to music and is intended to be sung

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song

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fourteen-line lyric poem focused on a single theme

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Sonnet

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solemn and formal lyric poem about death

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elegy

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long, formal lyric poem with a serious theme. it often honors people, commemorative events, respond to natural scenes or consider serious human problems

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ode

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includes all lyric poems that do not fall under the 4 other types

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simple lyric

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5,7,5

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Haiku-Matsuo basho

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Fiction comes from

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Latin word fingere- to form, create

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prose writing that tells about the imaginary characters and events

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fiction

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brief purpose narrative that usually can be read in one sitting. it contains few characters and single plot that revolves around the main character

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short story

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consists of a simply long written story in prose dealing with human experiences through sequence of events. it has more characteristics with several sub-plots

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Novel

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narrative prose intended to be played on the stage. it is usually called a play written in scripted form to be reenacted by the actors

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dram

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brief story usually with animal characters that teaches a lesson or moral

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fable

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short narrative that is at least in part allegorical and that illustrates a moral or spiritual lesson

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parable

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story that reflects the people’s identity or cultural values, generally with more historical and less emphasis on the supernatural

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Legend

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fictional tale, originally with religious significance that explains the action of gods or heroes, the causes of natural phenomena or both

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Myth

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story featuring folkloric characters such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, giants, talking animals and others.

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fairy tale

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sub-class of the folktale

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fairy tale

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prose writing that presents and explains ideas or tells about real people, places, objects or events

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non-fiction

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Autobiography from the word

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Greek
auton- self
bios- life
graphein-write

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biography written by the author about himself

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Autobiography

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Biography from the word

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Greek word
bios-life
graphein-write

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genre of literature based on the written accounts of individual llives

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biography

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short work of writing that treats a topic from an author’s personal point of view

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essay

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essay comes from the word

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French

essai meaning attempt

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most common of literature

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essay

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book for writing discrete entries arranged by date reporting on what has happened over the course of a day or other period

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Diary or journal

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special sound effects

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sound

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regular recurrence of similar sounds a then end of lines

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rhyme

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beat in music, is the recurrence of pattern of sound

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rhythm

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result of systematically stressing or accenting words and syllables

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rhythm

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measure with which we count the beat of rhythm

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meter

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Meter comes from the word

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Greek word

metron-measure

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repeated use of a sound, word, phrase, sentence

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repetition

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repetition of initial consonant sounds

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alliteration

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repetition of internal consonant sounds

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consonance

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repetition of vowel sounds

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assonance

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repetition of grammatical patterns

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parallelism

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simile came from the word

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Latin word

simile-similar

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Stated comparison between two things that really are very different, but share some common element

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Simile

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Metaphor came from the word

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Greek verb

methapherein-carry over

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Acquaintance with letters

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Latin word- literra meaning letter

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distinctive type or category through connected sequence of events

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genre

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Language of the imagination

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Poetry

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Refers to those expressions in verse, with measures, rhymes, lines, stanzas and melodious tones

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Poetry

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short simple narrative poem composed to be sung

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ballad

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series of events or facts told or presented based on the metric system as a standard of measurement

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metrical tale

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It is taken from the word lyre, a musical instrument. it is a poem that is intended to be sung

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Lyric

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It was perfected in Italy by Francesco Petraca in the 14th century

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Sonnet

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a soothing refrain specifically a song to quiet down children and lull them to sleep

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Lullabies

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this poetry has elements that are closely related to drama because it is written in dramatic form or make use of a dramatic technique

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Dramatic Poetry

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this is a combination of drama and poetry which presents the speech of the character in a particular situation at a critical moment

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dramatic monologue

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act of talking to oneself

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soliloquy

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figure of speech that gives human qualities or attributes to an object, animal or idea

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prsonification

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Metonymy came from the word

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Greek prefix
meta-change
onoma-name

72
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substitution the literal noun for another which it suggests because it is somehow associated with it

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metonymy

73
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Hyperbole comes from the word

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Greek prefix
hyper-beyond
ballein-throw

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deliberate overstatement or exagerration-not to deceive but to emphasize a statement-often for humorous effect

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hyperbole

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statement of one idea, opposite of which is meant

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irony

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combining of contraries (opposites) to portray a particular image or to produce a striking effect

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oxymoron

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direct address to an inanimate object

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apostrophe

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