L1 Flashcards

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Form latin word “littera” means “letter” means written text

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Literature

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2
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Purpose of literature

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Entertainment and education to the preservation of culture and history

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3
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Total of preserved writings

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Merriam-Webster

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4
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Meaning of nature and life

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Henry Van Dyke

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5
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Faithful reproductions of life

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Teofilo del Castillo and Buenaventura S. Medina

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Experience the ‘lived’ meaning of life

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Cleanth Brooks, John Thibaut, and Robert Penn Warren

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7
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Type of literature

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Oral literature
Written literature

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8
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Preserved and handed by word of mouth

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Oral literature

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9
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More permanent literature

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Written literature

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10
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Reasons to write

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-For Self expression
-To spread knowledge and information
-To pass on ideas and values
-to convey truth, accuracy, and evaluation

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11
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Major forms of literature

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Prose
Poetry

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12
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Continuous and usual flow of conversation

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Prose

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13
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Combine sounds and meaning of language to create and express ideas and feelings

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Poetry

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14
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The product of the author’s imagination

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Fiction

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15
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Based on facts, real events and real people

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Non-fiction

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16
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Shorter in length and less developed characters

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Short story

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17
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Long prose fiction, focuses on character development

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Novel

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18
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Scripted story executed on stage

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Play

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19
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Traditional story based on historical events

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Legend

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20
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Animals as character, have element of humor and form of folk literature

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Fable

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Express viewpoint and judgment of the writer

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Formal speech delivered to audience

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Detailed information of a person life

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Author writes his own life account

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Autobiography

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Information about current events or situation
News
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Written message communicated
Letters
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Record of personal and daily experience
Diaries
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Universal records, technical journal
Journals
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Tells a story
Narrative
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Express personal emotions and includes rhyme and meter
Lyrics
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Written in verse and meant to be spoken or acted
Dramatic
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Long narrative poem featuring a hero
Epics
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Type of songs has repeated chorus and use simple and emotional language
Ballads
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Shortest Japanese poem, 17 syllables 5-7-5
Haiku
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Serious elaborate lyric poem
Ode
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Poem of meditation on life and death, mourns the death
Elegy
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14 lyric poem
Sonnet
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Intended to be sung
Song
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Long speeches by one actor to another
Dramatic monologue
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With like or as
Simile
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Direct comparison
Metaphor
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Giving human qualities to non-human
Personification
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Represent the whole
Synecdoche
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Related term to refer to something
Metonymy
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Exaggeration
Hyperbole
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Understatement
Litotes
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Direct address to an absent person
Apostrophe
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Repetition of consonant sound at the beginning
Alliteration
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Repetition of vowel sounds
Assonance
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Repetition of consonant at the end
Consonance