21st - Intro to literature

• Literature in English - involves the reading and analysis of written materials of different kinds including fiction and non-fiction written works
• Literature - can be defined as "pieces of writing that are values of art, especially novels, plays, and poems"
• Literature - the body of written works produced in a particular language, country, or age, or the body of writings on a particular subject
• Literature - improves your command of language
• Fictional and Non-Fictional - 2 kinds of literature
• Fictional Literature - is imaginary composed writing or work of art that is meant to provide information, education and entertainment to the reader.
• Fictional Literature - is based on the writer's imagination rather than reality.
• Non-Fictional Literature - is factual writing or written work that is gives facts that can proved as it provides real places, events, characters, times or reality rather than imaginary things.
• fiction - is any form of literature that tells about imaginary people, places, or events.
• short story - is a short fictional prose narrative built on a plot that includes the basic situation, complications, climax, and resolution.
• Novel - is a long fictional story that uses all the elements of storytelling.
• Oral or traditional literature - has some form of stories often told by word of mouth from generation to generation
• elements of fiction

  author

  setting

  plot

  themes

  characters

  style

  language
• author - the writer of any written work of art or fiction
• setting - this is the place and time in which story unfolds or takes place
• plot - this is a series or chain of related events that tells us "what happens" in a story
• conflict - can be external, as when a person struggles with another person, or with an angry warthog or with a hurricane
• conflict - can be internal, it can take place inside a person's mid or heart.
• theme - this refers to the controlling, main idea or central insight in the novel or short stroy.
• theme - is usually stated in a sentence or statement
• characters - these are persons or animals involved in a story in order to show entertain and show us some truth about human experience and ourselves
• characterization - refers to the kinds of characters the novel or short story has depending on the level of their development and involvement in the story of the book
• style - this refers to the way the novel or short story is written in order to have a desired effect on the reader or audience
• style - refers to the techniques used by the writer of a literary work
• point of view - this refers to the style the writer of a story uses to narrate the story
• three basic points of view

  omniscient

  third-person limited

  first-person
• omniscient point of view -is the point of view of a god-like being who has created a fictional world and who can tell us everything that is going on in the minds of all the characters
• omniscient narrator - is outside the story; he or she is not part of the action at all
• third-person point of view - is where the writer has decided to tell the story from the limited point of view as a single person in the story
• third-person point of view - this kind of story reads as if a camera is just zooming in on just one character
• the first-person point of view - the narrator speaks as "I", as a character in the story
• first-person point of view - this character can tell us only what he or she sees or hears and thinks about what is going on
• language - is part of style but it stands out to be the most important element of any fiction writing
• literary language - is often used in fiction writing to 'relish' the story