Literature basics

Question 1

What is literature?

Answer 1

-no right definition
-anything in print (any writing can be classified as literature)

“whole body of writings in a given language regardless of its aesthetic value (feeling of beauty)”

Question 2

Artistic writings

Answer 2

-use of rhetorical devices
-stylized writing
-aesthetic value
-artistic value
-enrich inner life of a reader in emotional and cognitive dimensions

Question 3

non-Artistic writings

Answer 3

PERIODICAL CHARACTER
-newspapers, magazines
SPECIALISED
-scientific research papers, biology, medicine character
PRIVATE CHARACTER
-letters

Question 4

Fiction

Answer 4

-words created, invented, made up by writer
-writer creates whole story and character

Question 5

non-Fiction

Answer 5

-based on actual events, people, facts

Question 6

Literature serves as medium…

Answer 6

-in which the writer shares their opinion, feelings
-which enhances the learning and development of language
-which informs, shares information about the world/certain topic
-which broadens understanding of society, increases readers’ awareness
-of entertainment, brings pleasure
-which is recording knowledge, passes on information

Question 7

3 Purposes of literature

Answer 7

EXPRESSIVE PURPOSE
-authors want to express themselves
AFFECTIVE PURPOSE
-something that evokes feelings (anger, happiness…)
IMITATIVE PURPOSE
-imitation of something (e.g. daily life), author interprets their world

Question 8

Reading competency

Answer 8

The level of understanding someone has achieved in regards to written text.

Question 9

Literacy

Answer 9

-Ability to read and write (literate person - who can read and write)
-Knowledge of particular subject (computer literacy, financial literacy…)

Question 10

Reading literacy

Answer 10

Ability to comprehend a written text

Question 11

Reading in mother tongue

Answer 11

-broadens word stock, knowledge, increases memory, develops writing skills

Question 12

Characteristics of a literary text

Answer 12

-Original piece of work. created independently
-Written
-Not aimed at a specific audience (everyone can read and try to understand)
-Fiction

e.g. -> novel, short story, drama, song…

Question 13

Functions of a literary text

Answer 13

-Aesthetic value
-Polysemic (many meanings of a word)
-Ambiguous (*nejednoznačný)
-Connotative character (Subjective pov of the author)
-Rhetorical devices

Question 14

Characteristics of a non-literary text

Answer 14

Designed for a specific audience

e.g. ->lectures, news, essays, legal documents, articles…

Question 15

Functions of a non-literary text

Answer 15

-Informative
-Objective
-Denotative language (literal meaning of a word)
-Doesn’t use rhetorical devices
-Transmits knowledge

Question 16

Unorganized literature

Answer 16

-A piece of literature doesn’t need to have theoretically right writing, the text doesn’t have to be logically organized, doesn’t have to be fixed in a printed medium, doesn’t need to have artistic value, doesn’t need to belong to one of the major literary genres

Question 17

Unorg. Lit. - HAIKU

Answer 17

3 lines, 14 syllables, unrhymed

Question 18

Unorg. Lit. - CALLIGHRAM

Answer 18

text arranged in a way it creates a decorative pattern

Question 19

Unorg. Lit. - TWITTER NOVEL

Answer 19

Series of tweets that create a novel

Question 20

Unorg. Lit. - FOUND POETRY

Answer 20

Consists of text borrowed from other sources - “recycled” lines which before already existed in other pieces of poetry