Lecture 5 Flashcards
It is written in closer correspondence to everyday speeches. It means that ‘you write it how you say it’.
Prose
…written within the common flow of conversation in sentences and paragraphs.
Prose
It is often meant to designate a conscious, cultivated writing, not merely bringing together of vocabularies, a listing idea, a catalog of objects.
Prose
True or false about Prose:
It is without sustained rhythmic regularity.
True
True or false about Prose:
It has logical, grammatical order, and its ideas are connectedly stated rather than merely listed.
True
True or false about Prose:
It is characterized by style, though the style will vary from writer to writer.
True
True or false about Prose:
It will secure variety of expression through diction and through sentence structure.
True
Ang (2012) said that it is the most popular form of literature.
Expository Prose - Essay
An ________ is a form of prose writing, not primarily narrative, in which the writer shares his thoughts and ideas, his feelings and emotions, and his observations on some phrases of life that caught his interest (Ramallosa, 2000).
essay
It is written to convey an idea or series of ideas that may inform, entertain, argue or merely describe something trivial or profound.
Essay
Essay comes from the French word, _____ which means trial or test.
essai
_______ is a short literary composition which is expository in nature
Essay
- impersonal and objective essay
- deals with serious and important topics like philosophy, theology, science and politics
- has an authoritative and scholarly
style and shows the writer’s masterful grasp of the topic - its formal tone echoes a detached, objective, clear straight forward expression
Formal essay
- personal and subjective essay
- covers the light, ordinary, even common place subjects through a bubbling, casual, conversational, friendly, often humorous but equally insightful, stance as the formal essay.
Informal Essay
■ a fictitious narrative with a complicated plot; it may have a main plot and one or more sub-plots that develop with the main plot; characters and actions representative of the real life of past or present times are portrayed in a plot; it is made up of chapters
Novel
- prose narratives that are intermediate between the short story and the novels
- about 50 to 150 ordinary pages long, but no exact limits given as to length
- more elaborate than a short story but can be read in a single sitting and can produce a single, concentrated effect
Novelette
- a brief, artistic form which is centered on a single main incident and is intended to produce a single
dominant impression - has a simple plot, few characters, usually of one setting, and is concerned with only one idea
- could be read at one sitting.
Short story
A brief short story, usually between 500 and 2,000 words in length, with a ‘twist’ or surprise ending. Its best practitioner was O. Henry.
Short-short story
A short, fictitious narrative which points out a oral or spiritual truth.
Parable
A brief tale, either in prose or verse, told to point a moral. The characters are most frequently animals, but need not be restricted since people and inanimate objects as well are sometimes the central figures. The subject matter of fables has to do with supernatural and unusual incidents and often draws it origin of folklore
Fable
_____ differ from legends in that they have less of historical background and more of the supernatural; they differ from the fable in that they are less concerned with moral didacticism and are the product of a racial group rather than the creation of an individual.
Myth