Prelim Flashcards
Literature are composition that?
- tells a story
- dramatize situations
- express emotions
- analyze and advocate ideas
Who enumerated why we have to study literature?
Roberts and Jacob (1995)
What are the genres of literature
- prose fiction
- poetry
- drama
- prose nonfiction
Also knoen as narrative fiction
Prose fiction
Classed as imaginative literature and is only based on the author’s imagination
PF
Its essence is narration and it’s focused on one or few major characters
PF
Main purpise is to interest, stimulate, instruct, and divert, not create precise historial record
PF
Aim is truth to life and human nature
PF
Classification of PF
Prose allegory
Prose romances
Prose satires
Novels
Short story
Fables, myths, and legends are what kind of PF?
Prose allegory
Fairy tales, folk tales and myths and legends are what type of PF?
Prose Romances
Express conversation that is grounded in the mostly felt experiences of human being
Poetry
More economical in the use of words
Poetry
Relies heavily on imagery, figurative language, and sound
Poetry
What are the classifications of poetry?
- Narrative, Lyric, and Dramatic
What are the classifications of poetry?
- Narrative, Lyric, and Dramatic
Epic, metrical romance, ballad, and metrical tale are?
Narrative poetry
Ode, elegy, songs, and etc
Lyric poetry
Poetry plays, masque, dramatic monologue
Dramatic poetry
Designed to be performed by actors
Drama
Focus on a single character or a small number of characters
Drama
Enacts eventd as if they were happening in the present
Drama
May use prode dialogye or be in poetic form
Drama
Its essence is “make-believe”
Drama
Classification of drama:
- tragedy, comedy, morality play, tragicomedy, farce, melodrama, social drama, closet drams, comedy
Describe or interprets facts
Prose Nonfiction
The controls governing the development of the actions
Plot
A major element of plot vecayse opposing forces arousec
Conflict
The arrangement of materials
Structure
The laying out
Exposition
The onset of major conflicts
Complication
greek for turning point where curiosity, uncertainty, and tension are greatest
Crisis
Greek for ladder, the consequences of the crisis
Climax
The finishihg of things
Denouement
Verbal interpretation of human being
Character
A quality of mind or habitual mode of behavior
Recognize, change with, or adjust to circumstances
Round
Do not grow, static
Flat
Involves the actual physical location of the speaker
POV
The natural, manufactured, political, cultural, and temporal environment
Setting
The way the author assemble words to tell a story
Style
Consists if standard and also elegant words
Formal or high diction
Ordinary, everyday, but still standard vocabulary
Neutral or middle diction
Ordinary, everyday, but still standard vocabulary
Neutral or middle diction
Words referring to broad classes
Ex. Food
General
The words that bring to mind images
Ex. Charvoal’boiled
Specific
The words that bring to mind images
Ex. Charvoal’boiled
Specific
Words describing qualities
Concrete
What a word means
Denotation
What a word suggest
Connotation
Art of persuasive writing
Rhetoric
The number of words in a sentence
Counting
The repetition if the same grammatical form
Parallelism
A favorite parallel device by authors (ABBA pattern,)
Chiasmus or Antimabole
Refers to the methods which authors and speakers reveals attitudes or feelings
Tone
A verbal description of persons, represents an abstract ifra create direct meaningful wuestions
Symbol
Generally or universally recognized
Cultural
Private or authorial
Contextual
A major or central idea
Theme
Relates to meaning, interpretation, and significance
Idea
