The Literary Arts

Question 1

Any written work that is, for the most part, considered art (different from the visual arts)

Answer 1

Literary arts

Question 2

Etymology

Answer 2

Latin litteratura, which means writing, grammar, learning from litteratus (inf)

Question 3

Kinds of literary art

Answer 3

Prose (fiction and non-fiction), novel, short story, poetry, drama, scripts, comics

Question 4

Literature and the allied fields

Answer 4

Books, comics, tv, film, theater, communications, games

Question 5

Without language, literature would not exist

Answer 5

Yes, because words are what make up literary woks

Question 6

What is language?

Answer 6

Is a form of communication

Question 7

What is language used for?

Answer 7

Ranging from daily discourse to the acquisition of knowledge and power

Question 8

What is literature?

Answer 8

Is a discourse in which the creativity and complexity of language are designed with a wide range of styles

Question 9

Literary language is borne with certain linguistic features, what are these features?

Answer 9

Can be metaphor, simile, assonance, alliteration, refrain (repetition of word or phrase), unusual systactic patterns, ambiguity (double/multiple meaning of a word), poeticisms, mixing of styles or registers, paradoxical use if language, cohesion..

Question 10

Language vs. Literature

Answer 10

Language (form of communication, expressive, use for discourse)
Literature (refers to written or spoken material - art form, has an intellectual value, imaginative but also expressive, cannot exist without language)