Literary themes Flashcards

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Often one’s identity is formed from a combination of these many different identities.

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Struggle for Identity or Purposes

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The literature of war takes a wide variety of approaches in its efforts to comprehend the war experience and encompasses scholarship on a number of genres, including poetry, drama, short stories, novels, journals, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and letters.

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EFFECTS OF WAR, TERRORISM AND OTHER SOCIAL EVILS

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one of the most popular themes in fiction. Central to the disaster tradition are stories of vast biosphere changes which drastically affect human life.

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A NATURAL OR MAN-MADE CATASTROPHE

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expressive literary pieces written in first person that center on a particular event in the author’s life and may contain vivid description as well as personal commentary and observations

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PERSONALIZED NARRATIVE

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These plot devices were often incorporated into tales about humanity’s future or alien races on other worlds

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EFFECTS OF TECHNOLOGY

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It is an economic system in which human beings have to undergo a series of events. It deals with social, political, educational, cultural and economic changes.

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EFFECTS OF CAPITALISM

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Often contemporary literature explores the notion of multiplicities of truth and acknowledges that history is filtered through human perspective and experience.

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MEMORY AND HISTORY

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Not only does it imply that every writer with a migration background automatically addresses migration in his or her work, but it also suggests that non-migrant, and even second-generation migrant writers are unable to do so. It embraces all literature written in the age of migration, addresses migration thematically and, in some cases, stylistically.

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THE MOVEMENT OF PEOPLE FROM ONE PLACE TO THE OTHER

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