Lesson 4

• Literary genre


  A literary type or category with a specific form, content and style
• Principal literary genres


  • Poetry
  • Fiction
  • Nonfiction
  • Drama
• Literary structure


  The organizational method used in literature, most commonly the narrative
• Literary elements


  Inherent in a literary text, such as characters, setting, conflict, plot, and theme
• Literary techniques


  Devices used deliberately by a writer to convey a particular meaning, such as dialogue
• Inference


  The use of information or background to reach a logical conclusion, to get the intended meaning of words based on context
• Figurative language


  Words or phrases used beyond their literal meaning, creating images or using sound devices to add deeper meaning
• Motif


  An object or idea that is repeated in a literary work
• Simile


  A figure of speech in which a comparison is made between two unlike things using "like" or "as"
• Many works of literature produced at present are characterized by the writers' use of conventional techniques.
• Context


  The background of the text which may have been influenced by the author's life, language, society, and culture
• Figure of speech


  A word or phrase which has a different meaning from its literal meaning
• Inferring the literal meaning of word(s) based on usage is to understand the text better by identifying its sociocultural context.
• As reader, you need to look beyond what is written in the text using the dictionary.
• The goal of inferring is to get the intended meaning of the word/s in the text based on context.