Prelim Flashcards

(60 cards)

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Literature are composition that?

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  • tells a story
  • dramatize situations
  • express emotions
  • analyze and advocate ideas
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Who enumerated why we have to study literature?

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Roberts and Jacob (1995)

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What are the genres of literature

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  • prose fiction
  • poetry
  • drama
  • prose nonfiction
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Also knoen as narrative fiction

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Prose fiction

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Classed as imaginative literature and is only based on the author’s imagination

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PF

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Its essence is narration and it’s focused on one or few major characters

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PF

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Main purpise is to interest, stimulate, instruct, and divert, not create precise historial record

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PF

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Aim is truth to life and human nature

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PF

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Classification of PF

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Prose allegory
Prose romances
Prose satires
Novels
Short story

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Fables, myths, and legends are what kind of PF?

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Prose allegory

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Fairy tales, folk tales and myths and legends are what type of PF?

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Prose Romances

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Express conversation that is grounded in the mostly felt experiences of human being

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Poetry

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More economical in the use of words

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Poetry

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Relies heavily on imagery, figurative language, and sound

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Poetry

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What are the classifications of poetry?

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  • Narrative, Lyric, and Dramatic
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What are the classifications of poetry?

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  • Narrative, Lyric, and Dramatic
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Epic, metrical romance, ballad, and metrical tale are?

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Narrative poetry

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Ode, elegy, songs, and etc

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Lyric poetry

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Poetry plays, masque, dramatic monologue

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Dramatic poetry

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Designed to be performed by actors

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Drama

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Focus on a single character or a small number of characters

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Drama

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Enacts eventd as if they were happening in the present

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Drama

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May use prode dialogye or be in poetic form

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Drama

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Its essence is “make-believe”

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Drama

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Classification of drama:
- tragedy, comedy, morality play, tragicomedy, farce, melodrama, social drama, closet drams, comedy
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Describe or interprets facts
Prose Nonfiction
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The controls governing the development of the actions
Plot
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A major element of plot vecayse opposing forces arousec
Conflict
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The arrangement of materials
Structure
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The laying out
Exposition
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The onset of major conflicts
Complication
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greek for turning point where curiosity, uncertainty, and tension are greatest
Crisis
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Greek for ladder, the consequences of the crisis
Climax
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The finishihg of things
Denouement
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Verbal interpretation of human being
Character
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A quality of mind or habitual mode of behavior
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Recognize, change with, or adjust to circumstances
Round
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Do not grow, static
Flat
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Involves the actual physical location of the speaker
POV
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The natural, manufactured, political, cultural, and temporal environment
Setting
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The way the author assemble words to tell a story
Style
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Consists if standard and also elegant words
Formal or high diction
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Ordinary, everyday, but still standard vocabulary
Neutral or middle diction
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Ordinary, everyday, but still standard vocabulary
Neutral or middle diction
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Words referring to broad classes Ex. Food
General
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The words that bring to mind images Ex. Charvoal'boiled
Specific
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The words that bring to mind images Ex. Charvoal'boiled
Specific
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Words describing qualities
Concrete
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What a word means
Denotation
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What a word suggest
Connotation
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Art of persuasive writing
Rhetoric
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The number of words in a sentence
Counting
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The repetition if the same grammatical form
Parallelism
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A favorite parallel device by authors (ABBA pattern,)
Chiasmus or Antimabole
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Refers to the methods which authors and speakers reveals attitudes or feelings
Tone
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A verbal description of persons, represents an abstract ifra create direct meaningful wuestions
Symbol
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Generally or universally recognized
Cultural
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Private or authorial
Contextual
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A major or central idea
Theme
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Relates to meaning, interpretation, and significance
Idea