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Prelim Flashcards

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Who stated that a literature is when a “book reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance”

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Raymond chandler

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Who stated “It is the beautiful expression of man’s personal interpretation literature is not only becomes but is life itself’

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Amador daguio

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Literary types and forms

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Prose fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction prose

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A narrative written without metric pattern

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Prose fiction

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Types of prose fiction

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Myth, Legend, Parable, Fable, Novel, Fairy Tale, Short Story

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Types of poetry

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Lyric poetry, narrative poetry, dramatic poetry

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Types of Lyric Poetry

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Song, Sonnet, Elegy, Ode

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Typss of Narrative Poetry

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Ballad, Metrical Romance, Epic

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Types of Dramatic Poetry

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Dramatic Monologue and Soliloquy

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Types of Tragedy Drama

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Tragicomedy and Melodrama

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Types of Drama

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Tragedy and Satirical Comedy

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Types of Satirical Comedy

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Comedy of Manners, Romantic Comedy, Black Comedy, Farce

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Critical approaches in studying literature

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reader response, marxism, feminism, queer theory, formalism, historical biographical approach, deconstruction and moral or intellectual approach

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An approach that establishes interaction between the reader and the piece of literature

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Reader response

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This approach focuses on class conflicts as well as class distinctions by emphasizing social economic and political inequalities

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Marxism

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This approach examines the subjugation of women in the society

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Feminism

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This approach scrutinizes and criticize the role of gender in literature

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Queer theory

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This approach focuses on the inherent features of a text

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Formalism

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This approach has an idea that text an author are inseparable the reader must dig the author’s life story to know what inspire him or her to write

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Historical biographical approach

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Any text is not a disconnected whole but contains numerous conflicting meanings

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Deconstruction

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This approach has the content and values of the text that is determined if the text is significant to the readers well-being

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Moral or intellectual approach

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The seven literary standards

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Artistry, intellectual value, suggestiveness, spiritual value, universality, style, and priceless

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This is rich in folktales, myths, riddles, and proverbs

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Oral tradition

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Literature delivered by word of mouth just also known as ‘orature’ it is often sung or recited by bonds and can take form of songs with tongue twisters

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Oral literature

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Four distinct phases of oral tradition

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Oral literature, pre-colonial literature, colonial literature, and postcolonial literature

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Four distinct phases of oral tradition

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Oral literature, pre-colonial literature, colonial literature, and postcolonial literature

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It is before the white men came to african

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Pre-colonial literature

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This literature mostly portrays live narratives mostly are in themes of liberation in independence and negritude the writer suffered at the hands of their own government

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Colonial literature

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Who wrote Ethiopia Unbound

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Joseph ephraim hayford

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Who wrote the black hermit

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Ngugi Wa Thiongo

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He was jailed for writing the “Man died”

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Wole Soyinka

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He was hunged by nigerian junta

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Ken Saro Wiwa

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He was detained under anti-terrorism act 83 of 1967 in south africa

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Mongance Wally

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It is compromises of the oral and written works of the continent

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African literature

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In this era the writers enjoy the dividends of the war fought and won by their predecessors. Deviations from the original intent of literature which is the educated entertain became notable as of acclimation and narcissism dominated this era

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Postcolonial literature

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The literature in this era also dealt with the endemic corruption and government circles conflict and economic disparities as well as the rights and roles of women

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Postcolonial literature

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He is perhaps the foremost english language poet and certainly the most celebrated playwright of black africa combining western dramatic forms with music dance and mime of africa

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Wole Soyinka

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Wole Soyinka’s first play which was produced in london in 1958

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The swamp dwellers

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He won the nobel prize for literature in 1986 the first time a black african writer had been so honored and in fact the first international honor in literature ever won by a black african

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Wole Soyinka

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One of the world’s most widely recognized and praised writers who wrote some of the most extraordinary works of the 20th century.

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Chinua Achebe

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Chinua Achebe’s most famous novel, a devastating depiction of the clash between traditional tribal values and the effects of colonial rule as well as attention between masculinity and femininity in highly patriarchal societies

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Things fall apart 1958

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Chinua akebes critic in which he accuses the popular novel of rampant racism through its ordering of the african continent and its people

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Joseph conrad’s heart of darkness 1899

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He is one of africa’s most important and influential post colonial writers

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Ngugi wa Thiong’o

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Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s two novels which concern the impact of colonialism christianity and rebellion on the east african people

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Weep not, child (1964) and The River between (1965)

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Wa Thiong was imprisoned without trial for over a year by the government for the staging of politically controversial play

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Petals by blood 1967

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She was a south african writer political activist and recipient of the 1991 nobel prize in literature

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Nadine gordimer

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Nadine gardimer’s first novel which was based largely on her own life and set in her home town

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The lying days (1953)

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Nadine gardimer’s first novel which was based largely on her own life and set in her home town

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The lying days (1953)

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Nadine gardimer’s novels which focuses on an illicit love affair between a black man and the white woman

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A world of strangers (1958)
Occasion for loving (1963)

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This novel of Nadine Gordimer deal with master servant relations in south african life

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The Late Bourgeios World (1966)

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Gordimer’s novel which was a joint winner of the booker prize for fiction

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The conservationist

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Nadine gardimer’s last novel before her death in 2014

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No time like the present (2012)

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This literature is characterized by a wide diversity of types and subject matter

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Ancient egyptian literature

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2,755 to 2,255 bc

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Old kingdom

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Three texts/works of old kingdom

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Pyramid text, cannibal text and proverbs of Ptahotep

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This text include non-literary and highly poetic spells

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Pyramid text

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This text has vivid bits of poetry representing the dead kings attaining power in the afterlife by devouring the gods

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Cannibal Texts

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A book of sound but worldly advice

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Proverbs of Ptahotep

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This is the classic edge of Egyptian literature which saw the flourishing of works which became popular for hundred of years

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Middle kingdom

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Example of works from the middle kingdom

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Tale of Sinuhe, The Shipwrecked Sailor

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During this period the style of writing change and the language of the day was used a more natural manner of writing replacing the artificialities of the middle kingdom

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New kingdom

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Examples of the famous writings in new kingdom

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The story of King Apohis and Sekenenre, Voyage of Wenamon, The Tale of Two Brothers, The Enchanted Prince, etc

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This period of literature differs greatly from that of earlier times because it was written in demotic the simplified egyptian language of the time

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Late period

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Examples of the works during the late period

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The lamentations of isis and Nephtys, Setna and the magic book

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This literature are a major part of egyptian literature text were usually written on papyrus but most have perished together with the libraries

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Religious literature

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An example of religious literature which consists of hymns and spells for the benefit of the dead and as they are the earliest literature liturgy and exposition of religion in the world they throw light on the primitive beliefs and official creeds

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Pyramid text

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This text superseded the pyramid text as early as the eight dynasty but their principal sources are the later cemeteries of the no marks of middle egypt in the 12th dynasty.

Most of them were written on papyrus or wood coffins in an early form of middle egyptian

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The coffin text

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Series of chapters written on papyrus and often illustrated with miniature paintings found on graves it is believed to be intended for the exercise of magic for private individuals in the life hereafter

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The book of the dead

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This story is the most famous in the egyptian literature

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The tale of sinuhe

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This story shows the existence of written and oral traditions in ancient egyptian culture

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The story of doomed prince

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The story recounts the tale of a phoenician merchant

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Misadventures of wen-amon

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This story is similar to the biblical story of joseph and his brothers

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The tale of the two brothers

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This story tells the bad and tedious complaints of a peasant who had been robbed of his merchandise

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The story of the eloquent peasant

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This literature can be found throughout all periods of ancient egyptian history from the old kingdom to the new kingdom it represents one special category of literature because they look at codes of behavior and ethical values of the ancient egyptian society

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Wisdom literature

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This literature can be found throughout all periods of ancient egyptian history from the old kingdom to the new kingdom it represents one special category of literature because they look at codes of behavior and ethical values of the ancient egyptian society

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Wisdom literature

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This is an example of a wisdom literature which can be learned by heart as a part of young man’s education

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The Teaching of Amenomopet

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This literature expresses a depth of understanding of the complexities of life but that’s so in high prose. It is also known as didactic literature

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Pessimistic literature

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How many nations make up africa

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79
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This is a literary movement by black intellectuals from french colonies in the 1930s

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Negritude

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