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LITERATURE Flashcards

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This generally can be any written work, but it is an artistic or intellectual work of writing.

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Literature

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The Types of Literature/Literary Genre

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Fiction
Non-Fiction

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Examples of Fiction

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Drama
Fable
Fairy Tale
Legend
Mythology
Poetry
Short Story
Novel

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This stories composed in verse or prose, usually for theatrical performance, where conflicts and emotion are expressed through dialogue and action.

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Drama

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It is written when the intention is to provide the audience with a moral story. It usually uses animals as characters to convey the story.

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Fable

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This story about fairies or other magical creatures, usually for children.

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Fairy Tale

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A story, sometimes of a national or folk hero, which has a basis in fact but also includes imaginative material.

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Legend

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Legend or traditional narrative, often based in part on historical events, that reveals human behavior and natural phenomena by its symbolism; often pertaining to the actions of the gods.

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Mythology

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An invented prose narrative shorter than a novel usually dealing with a few characters and aiming at unity of effect and often concentrating on the creation of mood rather than plot.

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Short Story

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An invented prose narrative that is usually long and complex and deals especially with human experience through a usually connected sequence of events.

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Novel

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The art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts.

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Poetry

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Examples of Non-Fiction

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Biography/Autobiography
Essay
Speech

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This is the narrative of a person’s life, a true story about a real person.

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Biography/Autobiography

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A short literary composition that reflects the author’s outlook or point.

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Essay

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This is a public address or discourse.

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Speech

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The Impacts of Literature

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Emotional Appeal
Intellectual Appeal
Humanistic Value

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This is attained when the reader is emotionally moved or touched by a literary work.

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Emotional Appeal

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This adds knowledge or information and reminds the reader of what he has forgotten.

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Intellectual Appeal

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This can be attained when a literary work makes the reader an improved person with a better outlook in life and with in life and with a clear understanding of his/her inner self.

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Humanistic Value

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The Classifications of Literature.

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Escape Literature
Interpretative Literature

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This is written for entertainment purposes, that is, to help us pass the time in an agreeable manner. It takes us away from the real world and enables us to temporarily forget and troubles and has for its object only pleasure.

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Escape Literature

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This is written to broaden and sharpen our awareness in life. It takes us through imagination, deeper into the real world and enables us to understand our troubles. It has for its object—pleasure plus understanding.

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Interpretative Literature

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The Uses of Literature.

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Moralizing Literature
Propaganda Literature
Psychological Continuum of the Individual

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The purpose of literature is to present moral values for the reader to understand and appreciate. The moral may be directly or indirectly stated.

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Moralizing Literature

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This kind of literature is found not only in history books and advertising and marketing books but also in some books describing one’s personal success and achievements in life.

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Propaganda Literature

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Therapeutic value – it could be looked on as a sophisticated modern elaboration of the idea of catharsis – an emotional relief experience by the reader there by helping him recover from a previous pent-up emotion.

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Psychological Continuum of the Individual

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The Elements of Short Story, Legends, Fairy Tale, Fable

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Plot
Setting
Character
Conflict
Theme

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This is a series of events and character actions that relate to the central conflict.

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Plot

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The Six Succinct Stages of a Plot

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Exposition
Opening Incident
Rising Action
Climax
Falling Action
Resolution

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The stage of plot which introduces the characters, setting, and the conflict, providing all the necessary background information.

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Exposition

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The stage of plot which shows the incident that leads the main character to conflict and begins the plot.

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Opening Incident

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The stage of plot where the conflict develops and takes on newer, more complicated incidents, leading to the climax.

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Rising Action

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The stage of plot when the conflict reaches a peak, which then leads to a change in the course events, giving the reader a new understanding of the story either through an event or an insight.

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Climax

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The stage of plot where the conflict gets resolved and action slows down.

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Falling Action

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The stage of plot where the conflict ends, leaving the reader fulfilled.

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Resolution

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This is the time and place of the story in which it happens. You could use descriptions of landscape, scenery, buildings, seasons, or weather to provide a strong sense of ____.

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Setting

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Aspects of Settiings

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Time
Place
Environment

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A story is usually set in a time period. This includes the historical time of the story, its specific time frame, and even the time of the day when the events take place.

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Time

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The geographical landscape, real or imaginary, where a particular story unfolds.

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Place

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A story can include anything from weather conditions to the social, cultural, and political backdrop to a given story.

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Environment

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A person, or sometimes even an animal, who takes part in the action of a short story or other literary work.

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Character

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This is a struggle between two people or things in a short story. The main character is usually on one side of the central ____.

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Conflict

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Types of Conflict

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Internal Conflict
External Confict

44
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The conflict where a person’s struggle with themselves.

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Internal Conflict

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The conflict that takes place between different people, or groups of people. It is possible to further divide this type of conflict based on who or what the protagonists(s) are struggling against.

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External Conflict

46
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The central idea or belief in a short story.

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Theme

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Elements of Poetry

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Denotation/Connotation
Imagery
Figurative Language
Rhythm and Meter

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This is the actual meaning of a word derived from the dictionary.

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Denotation

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This is the related or allied meanings of words.

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Connotation

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This is defined as the representation of sense experience through language.

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Imagery

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This is a way of expressing oneself that does not use a word’s strict or realistic meaning. The most important part of it are the simile and metaphor.

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Figurative Language

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Our appreciation of these is rooted even deeper in us than our love for musical repetition.

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Rhythm and Meter

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