BEA NOTES

• Literature


  A piece of printed work connected to the thought and expressions of people
• Types of Literature


  • Prose
  • Poetry
• Prose


  Consists of those written within the common flow of conversation in sentences and paragraphs
• Poetry


  Refers to those expressions in verse, with measure and rhyme, line, and stanza and has more melodious tone
• Types of Prose


  • Novel
  • Short Story
  • Play
  • Legend
  • Fables
  • Anecdotes
  • Essay
  • Biography
  • News
  • Oration
• Types of Poetry


  • Narrative Poetry
  • Lyric Poetry
  • Dramatic Poetry
• Narrative Poetry


  • Describes important events in life either real or imaginary
• Narrative Poetry


  • Epic
  • Metrical Tail
  • Ballads
• Lyric Poetry


  • Poetry that expresses emotions and feelings of the poet
• Dramatic Poetry


  • Poetry presented on stage, divided into acts and have many scenes
• Riddles


  Statements or questions or phrases having double or veiled meanings put forth as puzzles to be solved
• Proverbs


  Also called byword or nayword; a simple concrete saying popularly known and repeated
• Folklore


  Refers to culture, including stories, music, dance, legends, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, customs within a particular population
• Folktales


  Traditional narratives, usually anonymous, handed down orally (fables, fairy tales, legends, etc.)
• 1. book


  An e-text that forms the digital media equivalent or a conventional printed material
• Blog


  A composition of what is happening in a person's life
• Dissertation


  A document that presents the author's research finding and is submitted in support of
• Thesis


  A treatise advancing a new point of view resulting from research findings
• Folk Song


  A class of songs popular with the common people
• Folk Speech


  The speech of the common people, as distinguished from that of the educated class
• Literary Devices


  • Point of view
  • Tone
  • Irony
  • Poetic justice
  • Foreshadowing
  • Conflict
• Point of View


  The perspective from which a story is told
• Point of View


  • First Person
  • First Person Observer
  • Omniscient
  • Third Person
  • Composite
• Tone


  The attitude taken by the writer toward some ideas or toward his work
• Irony


  A discrepancy between what seems and what is
• Irony


  • Verbal Irony
  • Dramatic Irony
  • Situational Irony
• Poetic Justice


  Outcomes of events that rewards the good and punishes the evil; an ending which the hero gets what he deserves
• Foreshadowing


  Dropping of hints by the authors to prepare the reader what to come
• Conflict


  The clash between two opposing forces, ideas, or beliefs, upon which the action depends
• Types of Conflict


  • Elemental or Physical
  • Social
  • Internal
• Poetic Devices


  • Tone
  • Alliteration
  • Assonance
  • Meter
• Tone


  The quality of voice which reveals the attitude of the narrator
• Alliteration


  The repetition of the consonant sounds
• Assonance


  The repetition of the vowel sounds
• Meter


  The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in measurable rhythms
• Figures of Speech


  • Simile
  • Metaphor
  • Personification
  • Apostrophe
  • Allusion
  • Hyperbole
  • Litotes
  • Metonymy
  • Synecdoche
  • Paradox
  • Oxymoron
• Simile


  An indirect comparison that uses as, such, and like
• Metaphor


  A direct comparison
• Personification


  An attachment of human qualities to nonhuman
• Apostrophe


  A direct address to someone absent or abstract