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Introduction to Literature Flashcards

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ENUMERATION: what are the types and forms of Literature

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TYPES:

  • written
  • oral
  • visual

FORMS:

  • prose
  • poetry
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ENUMERATION: what are the types of prose?

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  • fiction

- non-fiction

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ENUMERATION: what are the types of poetry

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  • narrative
  • lyric
  • drama
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It is the story about gods and goddesses

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Myth

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It is the story about the origin of a place or a thing

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Legend

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A long narrative divided into several chapters and usually taken from true-to-life evenets

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Novel

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Is an organized plot usually with a single impression

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Short Story

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A story that uses animals as characters and with moral lesson

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Fable

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A story used by Jesus in teaching the Good News

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Parable

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It is presented on stage, divided into acts, and each act has many scenes

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Plays

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It is true and happening in our day to day life

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Non-fiction

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It expresses a viewpoint or opinion of a writer about a particular problem or event.

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Essays

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Is a life story of a person written by another person

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Biography

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Is a collection of articles about various current events

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News

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It is a collection of articles regarding the lifestyle of man

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Magazine

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It is a formal treatment of a subject and is intended to be spoken in public.

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Oration

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Is a brief story, revealing account of an individual person or an incident.

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Anecdote

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What are the 3 kinds of narrative poetry?

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  • epic
  • ballad
  • metric tale
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It is a narrative poem about supernatural powers possessed by heroes and heroines

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Epic

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It is a poem with harmony and rhythm, usually referred to as a song accompanying a dance

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Ballad

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is written in verse and can be classified either a ballad or a metrical romance; deals with the emotions or phase of life and the story is told in a simple, straightforward and realistic manner.

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Metrical Tale

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a lyric poem with 12 syllables, with melodious harmony and rhythm of a guitar or banduria.

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Awit or Song

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a poem consisting of 14 iambic pentameter lines

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Sonnet

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a lyrical poem praising or glorifying an event or individual, describing nature intellectually as well as emotionally.

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Ode

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A lament for the dead

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Elegy

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a song praising God or the Virgin Mary and containing a Philosophy of life

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Psalms (Dalit)

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short poems intended to be sung with common themes: love despair grief doubt joy hope and sorrow

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Folksongs (Awiting Bayan)

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have measures of eight syllables and usually recited to a martial beat

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Corridos (Kuridos)

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A theatrical play with a happy ending

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Comedy

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involves a hero struggling mightily against dynamic forces;

involves death or ruin without success or satisfaction.

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Tragedy

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usually used in musical plays with the opera

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Melodrama

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is an exaggerated comedy

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Farce

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either purely comic or tragic and pictures the life of today

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Social Poems

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ENUMERATION: What are the 6 elements of a story?

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  1. character
  2. plot
  3. setting
  4. point of view
  5. conflict
  6. theme
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ENUMERATION: what are the 2 kinds of person in a work of fiction?

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  • protagonist

- antagonist

36
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are convincing if they

are consistent, motivated, and life-like (resemble real people)

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Characters

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ENUMERATION: characters are what? (3)

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  • individual
  • dynamic
  • static
38
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round, many sided, and complex personalities

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Individual

39
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developing and with many sided personalities that change, for better or worse, by the end of the story

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Dynamic

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stereotype, have one or two characteristics that never change and are emphasized (e.g. brilliant detective, drunk scrooge, cruel stepmother, etc)

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Static

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It is how the author arranges events to develop his basic idea

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Plot

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sequence of events in a story or play

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plot

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is a planned, logical series or events having a begining, middle, and end.

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plot

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usually has one plot so it can be read in one sitting

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Short Story

45
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The beginning of the story where the characters and the setting is revealed.

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Introduction/Exposition

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This is where the events in the story become complicated and the conflict in the story is revealed (events between the introduction and climax)

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Rising Action

47
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the highest point of interest and the turning point of the story

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Climax

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ENUMERATION: It is helpful to consider a climax as a three-fold phenomenon: (3)

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  • receives the information
  • accepts this information
  • acts on this information
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the events and complications begin to resolve themselves. The reader knows what has happened next and if the conflict was resolved or not (events between climax and denouement)

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Falling Action

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This is the final outcome or untangling of events in the story

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Denouement

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The time and location in which a story takes place

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Setting

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Geographical location; it is where the action of the story taking place

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Place

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It is when the story taking place (historical period, time of day, year)

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Time

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Rainy, sunny, stormy, etc

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Weather conditions

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“What is the daily life of the characters like?” Does the story contains local color?” (writing that focuses on the speech, dress, mannerisms, customs, etc of a particular place)

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Social Conditions

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Feeling created at the beginning of the story (bright & cheerful/dark & frightening)

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Mood/atmosphere

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relates to broad categories such as a country, state, region, city, and town, as well as to more specific locales, such as a neighborhood, street, house or school

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Locale

58
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is defined as the angle from which the story is told

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Point of view

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ENUMERATION: what are the 4 kinds of point of view?

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  1. innocent eye
  2. stream of consciousness
  3. first person
  4. omniscient
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the story is told through the eyes of a child

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innocent eye

61
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the story is told so that the reader feels as if they are inside the head of one character and knows all their thoughts and reactions

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Stream of Consciousness

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The reader sees the story through this person’s eyes as he/she experiences it

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First Person

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A point of view that can move from character to character, event to event, having free access to the thoughts, feelings, and motivations, etc. The author can narrate the story through this; powerful

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Omniscient

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ENUMERATION: Two main types of omniscient point of view

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  • omniscient limited

- omniscient objective

65
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Type of omniscient point of view wherein we know what the character knows; we can see the thoughts and feelings of characters

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Omniscient Limited

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Type of omniscient point of view wherein it appears as though a camera is following the characters, going anywhere, and recording only what is seen and heard.

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Omniscient Objective

67
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It is the opposition of forces whcih ties one incident to anothe and makes the plot move

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Conflict

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ENUMERATION: what are the 2 types of conflict?

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  • external

- internal

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ENUMERATION: what are the 4 kinds of conflict?

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  1. man vs man (physical)
  2. man vs circumstances (classical)
  3. man vs society (social)
  4. man vs himself/herself (psychological)
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is a struggle with a force outside one’s self

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external

71
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is a struggle within one’s self; a person must make some decision, overcome pain, etc

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internal

72
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the leading character struggles with his physical strength against other men, forces of nature, or animals

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Man vs. Man

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the leading character struggles against fate, or the circumstances of life facing him/her

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Man vs. Circumstances

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the leading character struggles against ideas, practices, or customs of other people

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Man vs. Society

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the leading character struggles with himself; with his own soul, ideas of right or wrong, physical limitations, choices, etc

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Man vs. Himself

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The ____ in a piece of fiction is its controlling idea or its central insight. it is the author’s underlying meaning or main idea that he is trying to convey.

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Theme

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It may be the author’s thoughts about a topic or view of human nature

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theme

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