LITERATURE Flashcards
LITERATURE
is derived from the Latin term __________ which means letter. In a
sense, literature means any written material with emotional
value or content. It is a printed material, a product of
imagination related to the ideas and feelings of people. A
literary work is a material fact that can be analyzed rather than
examined through the machine. It is made of words, not of
objects.
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_____________- A TYPE OR
CATEGORY OF LITERATURE
LITERARY GENRE
A play for theater told by characters through dialogue
DRAMA
A HUMOROUS DRAMA WITH A HAPPY ENDING
COMEDY
A SAD DRAMA WITH A SAD ENDING
TRAGEDY
A story that did not happen in real life
FICTION
A STORY ABOUT A FANTASY WORLD, CONTENT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO
HAPPEN IN REAL LIFE
FANTASY
OLD CULTURAL STORIES
FOLKLORE
A FICTIONAL STORY BASED ON HISTORY
HISTORICAL FICTION
A STORY ABOUT A CRIME, THE GOAL IS TO SOLVE
A CRIME
MYSTERY
LOVE STORY
ROMANCE
A STORY IN THE FUTURE WITH ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY, A
FUTURISTIC SETTING WITH SIMILARITIES WITH OUR CURRENT
WORLD
SCIENCE FICTION
A STORY THAT MAKES READERS NERVOUS OR EXCITED, THE
GOAL IS TO THRILL THE AUDIENCE
THRILLER
Writing that is real and factual or that happened or
called “informational material”
NON-FICTION
A STORY OF A PERSON’S LIFE
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