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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
Literature
According to ___, Literature is a performance in words
Robert Frost
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
Henry Van Dyke
Forms of Literature/Two main division of literature:
Prose and Poetry
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
Poem
Patterns of stresses
Metric feet
Patterns of different length syllables
Classical prosody
Kinds of poetry
A. Narrative poetry
Epic
Ballad
Metrical Tale
Metrical Romance
B. Lyric Poetry
Song Sonnet Elegy Ode Simple Lyric
Haiku
Tells a story in verse
Narrative poetry
Retells in a continuous narrative the life and works of a heroic or mythological person or groups of persons
Epic
It is considered the oldest form of literature since its existence is known to be along the ancient history
Epic
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
Prose
Songlike poem that tells a story, often one dealing with adventure or romance
Ballad
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
Metrical tale
Long narrative poem that presents remote or imaginative incidents rather than ordinary realistic experience
Metrical Romance
The term is originally used to refer to medieval tales of the deeds and loves of noble knights and ladies
Romance
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
lyric poetry
lyric poem set to music and is intended to be sung
song
fourteen-line lyric poem focused on a single theme
Sonnet
solemn and formal lyric poem about death
elegy
long, formal lyric poem with a serious theme. it often honors people, commemorative events, respond to natural scenes or consider serious human problems
ode
includes all lyric poems that do not fall under the 4 other types
simple lyric
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Haiku-Matsuo basho
Fiction comes from
Latin word fingere- to form, create
prose writing that tells about the imaginary characters and events
fiction
brief purpose narrative that usually can be read in one sitting. it contains few characters and single plot that revolves around the main character
short story
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
Novel
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
dram
brief story usually with animal characters that teaches a lesson or moral
fable
short narrative that is at least in part allegorical and that illustrates a moral or spiritual lesson
parable
story that reflects the people’s identity or cultural values, generally with more historical and less emphasis on the supernatural
Legend
fictional tale, originally with religious significance that explains the action of gods or heroes, the causes of natural phenomena or both
Myth
story featuring folkloric characters such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, giants, talking animals and others.
fairy tale
sub-class of the folktale
fairy tale
prose writing that presents and explains ideas or tells about real people, places, objects or events
non-fiction
Autobiography from the word
Greek
auton- self
bios- life
graphein-write
biography written by the author about himself
Autobiography
Biography from the word
Greek word
bios-life
graphein-write
genre of literature based on the written accounts of individual llives
biography
short work of writing that treats a topic from an author’s personal point of view
essay
essay comes from the word
French
essai meaning attempt
most common of literature
essay
book for writing discrete entries arranged by date reporting on what has happened over the course of a day or other period
Diary or journal
special sound effects
sound
regular recurrence of similar sounds a then end of lines
rhyme
beat in music, is the recurrence of pattern of sound
rhythm
result of systematically stressing or accenting words and syllables
rhythm
measure with which we count the beat of rhythm
meter
Meter comes from the word
Greek word
metron-measure
repeated use of a sound, word, phrase, sentence
repetition
repetition of initial consonant sounds
alliteration
repetition of internal consonant sounds
consonance
repetition of vowel sounds
assonance
repetition of grammatical patterns
parallelism
simile came from the word
Latin word
simile-similar
Stated comparison between two things that really are very different, but share some common element
Simile
Metaphor came from the word
Greek verb
methapherein-carry over
Acquaintance with letters
Latin word- literra meaning letter
distinctive type or category through connected sequence of events
genre
Language of the imagination
Poetry
Refers to those expressions in verse, with measures, rhymes, lines, stanzas and melodious tones
Poetry
short simple narrative poem composed to be sung
ballad
series of events or facts told or presented based on the metric system as a standard of measurement
metrical tale
It is taken from the word lyre, a musical instrument. it is a poem that is intended to be sung
Lyric
It was perfected in Italy by Francesco Petraca in the 14th century
Sonnet
a soothing refrain specifically a song to quiet down children and lull them to sleep
Lullabies
this poetry has elements that are closely related to drama because it is written in dramatic form or make use of a dramatic technique
Dramatic Poetry
this is a combination of drama and poetry which presents the speech of the character in a particular situation at a critical moment
dramatic monologue
act of talking to oneself
soliloquy
figure of speech that gives human qualities or attributes to an object, animal or idea
prsonification
Metonymy came from the word
Greek prefix
meta-change
onoma-name
substitution the literal noun for another which it suggests because it is somehow associated with it
metonymy
Hyperbole comes from the word
Greek prefix
hyper-beyond
ballein-throw
deliberate overstatement or exagerration-not to deceive but to emphasize a statement-often for humorous effect
hyperbole
statement of one idea, opposite of which is meant
irony
combining of contraries (opposites) to portray a particular image or to produce a striking effect
oxymoron
direct address to an inanimate object
apostrophe
