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  • Literature comes from the Latin word 'litera or letter" means anything written.
  • Two considerations in literature
    • What the author is writing about or subject matter
    • How the subject is written, or the style
  • Types of literature
    • Literature of knowledge - primary purpose is to give information
    • Literature of power - communicate the author's vision of life, an interpretation of the facts of general existence
  • Critique
    Written to express one's response and evaluation of what was read
  • How to write a critique
    1. Introduction - Describe the work and its creator
    2. Body - Summarize the work, Evaluate the work, State your agreement or disagreement to the work
    3. Conclusion - Give an overview for your critique
  • Discourses applied to literary criticism
    • Marxist
    • Feminist
  • Marxist literary criticism
    Focuses on the class conflict portrayed in the story
  • Feminist literary criticism
    Focuses on the gender relationships of characters
  • Poetry is the oldest of the arts
  • Poets express emotions we dimly feel but cannot express
  • Elements of poems
    1.Sense creates the poem - The poet has a message about life that he / she wants to share with the reader.
    2. Poetry is a compact language- Ideas are conveyed in a few words.
    3. Rhythm -is the rise and fall in the stress of syllables.
    4. Rhyme - refers to the similarity of the sound of words
    5. Meter - is observed in traditional verses.
    6 figurative language - is important In poetry
    -used are simile, metaphor, personification.
    alliteration and assonance
  • Structuralism
    The study of how our minds make meaning through small step by step cognitive processes
  • Humanism
    An approach to life based on reason and our common humanity, recognizing that moral values are properly founded on human nature and experience alone
  • Romanticism
    A literary and artistic movement worked chiefly by on emphasis on the imagination and emotions
  • Marxism
    A political and economic theory where a society has no class
  • Moralism
    An approach that evaluates literature primarily on its ethical or moral content
  • Rationalism
    The belief that your life should be based on reason and logic, rather than emotions or religious beliefs
  • Feminism
    The belief that women deserve equal rights like social, economic, and political rights and freedoms
  • Pragmatism
    Thinking of or dealing with problems in a practical way
  • Language of research
    • Multi-syllable words
    • Types and forms of questions
    • Span of time covered by the research
    • Variable relationship (independent, dependent, extraneous, confounding)
    • Formulation of hypotheses
    • Data
    • Unit of analysis
  • Research methodologies
    • Experimental research
    • Quasi or pre-experimental research
    • Ethnography
    • Case study
  • Elements of poetry
    • Lines
    • Free verse
    • Onomatopoeia
    • Stanza
    • Alliteration
    • Symbol
    • Rhyme
    • Imagery
    • Mood
    • Rhyme scheme
    • Rhythm
    • Exaggeration
    • Tone
    • Figurative language
    • Style
  • Lyric poetry
    A short poem, usually melodious, which expresses feeling or emotion
  • Sonnet
    • Must have 14 lines
    • The lines must be in iambic pentameter
    • The lines must rhyme in a fixed pattern
  • Ode
    A formal poem having a complex stanza pattern, and it is addressed to an object or an idea
  • Elegy
    A poem mourning someone's death
  • Narrative poetry
    Presents an idea, paints a picture, or expresses an emotion, and tells a story in poetic form
  • Pure poetry is though, foolish you who do not know it, you know your sciences, but in every word light is poetry
  • Rhythm
    An essential characteristic of poetry, means a rise and fall in the stress of the syllables
  • Repetition
    The essence of rhythm
  • Pattern
    Implies a certain complexity
  • Metrical poem
    Has a regular pattern of accented and unaccented syllables that is used consistently throughout the poem
  • Foot
    Each unit of the pattern within a line of metrical poetry
  • Poetic feet
    • Iambic - two beats, first unaccented, second accented
    • Trochee - two beats, first accented, second unaccented
    • Spondee - two accented syllables
    • Anapest - three beats, first two unaccented, third accented
    • Dactyl - three beats, first accented, other two unaccented
  • Sound devices in poetry
    Rhyme - One of the sound devices used often in poetry.
    internal rhyme - Many times rhyme occurs within the line.
    -Rhyme may be masculine or single.
    2. Alliteration - is the repetition of same consonant sounds,
    3. Assonance - It is the repetition of vowel sounds.
    4. Onomatopoeia - it is the use of words whose sounds suggest their meanings.
    5. Prepetition - The repetition of a single word or a brief phrase
    6. Refrain- is the repetition of a line or of several lines at regular intervals throughout a poem.